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FDA Complicit in Pushing Prescription Drugs, Ad Critics Say

Apr. 20 – In light of news that government regulators have neglected their duties to review pharmaceutical commercials, their proposed fix involves crawling even deeper into bed with drugmakers. | Shreema Mehta reports.
POSTED: 11:01 AM EST

TNS Radio News Update for April 20, 2007

Apr. 20 – This week on TNS Radio: Tomato-pickers score victory over McDonald's; Drug industry pays to oversee its own ads?; Wal-Mart dodges taxes by paying rent to itself; Nanotech industry tries self-regulation. | Michelle Chen reports.
POSTED: 11:21 PM EST [APR 19]

After McDonald’s Victory, Labor Activists Target Burger King

Apr. 19 – It took four years for Taco Bell’s parent company to agree to demands that the restaurant take responsibility for the wages and working conditions of migrant laborers who pick its tomatoes. It took another two years for McDonald’s to accept a similar deal. | Kari Lydersen reports.
POSTED: 01:57 PM EST

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E. Coli Conservatism

Conservatism has been killing Americans. The recent food safety crisis is only one case study. (Rick Perlstein, Tom Paine)

GUILTY: A sign for a vigil outside the US mission in Havana showing President Bush and anti-Castro Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, reading, "Guilty: the US government harbors terrorism." Carriles is wanted for a 1976 Cuban airliner bombing.(Claudia Daut/Reuters)

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A direct-to-consumer advertisement for an osteoporosis drug. Consumer groups are pushing for stronger government oversight of pharmaceutical marketing that they see as misleading and harmful. (TNS coverage)