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The rats in the West Lafayette, Ind., laboratory of Susan Swithers, PhD, don’t lose weight when they eat artificially sweetened food. They eat more, and gain more. “Rather than these kind of products making it automatically easier to lose weight, they might make it automatically harder,” said Dr. Swithers, a Purdue University associate professor of psychological sciences.

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Barack Obama has acknowledged using marijuana and cocaine as a young man, but interviews with old friends and classmates find few who remember the presidential candidate as much of a drug user, the New York Times reported Feb. 9.

Former classmates from Obama’s high school and Occidental College, which he attended between 1979 and 1981, described Obama in mostly positive terms, with some saying he occasionally smoked marijuana but none recalling any cocaine use.

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Massachusetts physicians say a recent high court ruling expands physician liability well beyond the bounds of the doctor-patient relationship.

The state’s Supreme Judicial Court said doctors are liable not just to patients but also anyone else “foreseeably” put at risk when doctors fail to warn patients about potential side effects of drugs they prescribe.

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An Ohio man whose house was robbed had more than $400,000 confiscated by the FBI as a result of an investigation of the crime, the Lima News reported Dec. 18.

Luther Ricks Sr. said the money, which had been stored in a safe and eluded the thieves’ grasp during a summer 2007 break-in, was his life savings. But officers from the Lima Police Department who were investigating the robbery seized the money and turned it over to the FBI. Now, the agency is telling Ricks he must prove he earned the money legally if he wants it back.

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With a Congressional funding ban finally lifted, the District of Columbia government announced that it will spend $650,000 of local taxpayers’ money to establish needle-exchange programs aimed at cutting HIV/AIDS transmission among drug users, the Washington Post reported Jan. 3.

In its FY2008 budget plan, Congress ended a ban on D.C. using public funds to fund needle exchanges, although a ban on federal funding for the harm-reduction programs remains in place. D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said the clean-needle programs are needed to help reduce the HIV/AIDS rate in the city, which is among the highest in the nation.

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The sky is darkening outside the office of Terry Eska, MD. The rural Texas internist’s appointments are finished, but his work isn’t. A new nursing home patient needs inpatient dialysis, which isn’t available at the local hospital, so Dr. Eska calls a hospital an hour away.

The hospitalist at the other end of the line is reluctant about accepting a Medicare patient who may need critical care, and this man might be “at death’s door” anyway, as Dr. Eska puts it. But the hospital’s kidney specialist believes the man has a chance and the patient’s daughter isn’t ready to give up, so the hospitalist relents — after venting to Dr. Eska about the hospital’s finances.

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The success rate among addiction-treatment patients in the U.K. has slipped in recent years despite increased spending by the National Treatment Agency, the Telegraph reported Oct. 31.

The National Treatment Agency budget rose from $526 million in 2004-05 to about $799 million last year, but the treatment success rate fell from 3.5 percent of patients to less than 3 percent.

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