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Science and nature: Water world An ambitious project to bring back the lost fens of Cambridgeshire is now under way. PETER MARREN reports on a tug-of-war between farming and conservation
The Independent - London; 9/16/2002; Peter Marren; 787 words
; Adventurers Fen, named after the merchant adventurers of ... Eric Ennion. Then, in the 1940s, Adventurers Fen was requisitioned under the wartime "Dig ... the drying reeds set ablaze. Adventurers Fen's pair of books make a parable of the perpetual ...
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Dieters trying 'natural' alternatives to fen/phen.
The Boston Herald; 10/5/1997; Lasalandra, Michael; 642 words
; ... that the once-popular weight-loss pills fen/phen and Redux have been pulled from the ... centers emerged last year to capitalize on the fen/phen craze and, at one point, claimed 8 ... But the much-publicized dangers linked to fen/phen and Redux - an often-fatal lung disorder ...
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A coastal, southern-outlier patterned Fen: Lily Fen, Swans Island, Maine
Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2003; Almquist, Heather; Calhoun, Aram J K; 787 words
; ABSTRACT - Lily Fen is a 6 hectare, well-developed, patterned fen located on Swans Island, Maine. In contrast to other patterned fens in Maine, Lily Fen occupies a coastal location and lies approximately 100 kilometers ...
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MAKERS YANK FEN-PHEN, AND DIETERS AREN'T HAPPY.(NEWS)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 9/16/1997; Main, Frank; 732 words
; ... shock Monday when they called to have their fen-phen prescriptions filled. They were told ... recent study that showed almost one in three fen-phen users had abnormal echocardiograms ... Give them both to me,' '' Salmon said of fen-phen components fenfluramine and phentermine ...
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Jury rejects patient's claim in fen-phen suit
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/17/2002; TOM HELD; 505 words
; Jury rejects patient's claim in fen-phen suit Woman who later needed surgery ... sued for prescribing the diet drug mixture fen-phen to a woman who later required surgery ... court testimony last week, Gerber prescribed fen- phen to Jeffries in spring 1996 to help ...
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Fen-phen poses unknown exposure for insurers.(fenfluramine-phentermine-dexfenfluramine combination)
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management; 2/9/1998; Lonkevich, Dan; 787 words
; ... latest one concerning the diet-drug sensation fen-phen will. The emerging litigation over ... their products well enough to cover their fen-phen exposures, but only time will tell ... time bombs, he added. The two components of fen-phen have been on the market since the 1970s ...
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Local diet clinics see little reaction to news of possible fen- phen problems; The Mayo Clinic has warned of possible heart damage. Meanwhile, the drugs' makers are being sued.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/10/1997; Slovut, Gordon; 787 words
; ... prescribing a drug combination known as fen-phen, hardly anyone seemed aware Wednesday ... about a dozen queries from its hundreds of fen-phen clients. Tuesday's warning from Mayo ... Guilford Hartley is directing a trial of fen-phen on 200 obese patients. When Hartley ...
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Miami Beach Study Shows No Connection Between Fen-Phen and Heart Damage.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 11/11/1998; Smith, Stephen; 787 words
; Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--In a study certain to inflame the roiling debate ... researchers have concluded that the popular combination fen-phen did not damage dieters' hearts -- a finding that ... thumping hearts belonging to dieters who had taken the fen-phen combination as well as dieters ...
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Fen-phen story provides glimpse at how doctors, drug makers think
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal; 9/1/2001; Weinberg, Steve; 787 words
; Fenfluramine and Phentermine, known as fen-phen, became a popular prescription weight-lo ... His client, Mary Linnen, started taking fen-phen during spring 1996 on the advice of ... dizziness. And even though she stopped taking fen-phen, the 23 days worth of pills had destroyed ...
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Mayo Clinic warns of fen-phen heart damage; Diet-drug combination may cause valve defects.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/9/1997; Slovut, Gordon; 787 words
; ... popular prescription diet drug combination - fen-phen - may cause serious damage to dieters ... Millions of Americans have been taking fen-phen since 1992, when reports surfaced that ... average age was 43. One woman had been using fen-phen for only a month. The defects aren ...
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