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While I may have been just a glimmer in my mother’s eye when the movie “Planet of the Apes” first came out it theaters, I do remember all the reruns of the entire series that came on television throughout the 70′s as well as the cartoon and the miniseries. I even had the lunchbox [...]

CAGW Uploads Database of Labor-HHS Earmarks
Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today makes public a comprehensive, searchable database of the 2,243 earmarks worth $1 billion in the Fiscal 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Act, H.R. 3043.
“CAGW provides taxpayers with the information that Congress wants to keep under wraps: [...]

This is the question according to the NY Times that is on minds of many cardiologists as they await a delayed study on Zetia and Vytorin–two cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Cardiologists Question Delay of Data on 2 Drugs
By ALEX BERENSON
nytimes.com
Prescriptions for the cholesterol-lowering drugs Zetia and Vytorin are written for almost 800,000 Americans every week, at a cost [...]

For the younger folks out there, from time to time you may hear me or others use the phrase “Who’s on first?”. This is a reference to a famous skit performed by the comedic team of Abbott and Costello simply called “Who’s on first”. Although I was not around when this routine first came out, [...]