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5. Marlene Simmons et al., “Cancer-Cure Story Raises New Questions,” Los Angeles

Times 6 May 1998.

6. U.S. Food and1 Drug Administration, “FDA Issues Advice to Make Earliest Stages of

Clinical Drug Development More Efficient,” FDA News Release 12 Jan. 2006.

7. Diana E. Pankevich et al., “International Animal Research Regulations: Impact on

Neuroscience Research,” The National Academies (2012).

8. National Institutes of Health, “NIH Budget,” About NIH, 18 Nov. 2012.

9. Nina Rastogi, Slate.com. “Wasting Syndrome: How much trash do hospitals

produce?” October 19, 2010

10. Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News, News.nationalpost.com. “Knee replacement

surgery produces more waste than family of four in one week: study” May 27, 2013

11. Andy Harris, MD from Physicians for Social Responsibility, speaks to the problem of

dioxins emitted through incineration of medical waste as follows: “Dioxins are among the

most toxic chemicals on earth, the contaminant in Agent Orange used in the Vietnam

War. Dioxins are Class 1 human carcinogens and according to the EPA, the average

American's cancer risk is increased 1000-fold because of dioxin stored in our bodies.

Dioxins also cause multiple reproductive and developmental abnormalities. They have

been linked to disrupted sexual development, birth defects and damage to the immune

system.

The EPA has concluded there appears to be no ‘safe’ level of exposure to dioxin.

Dioxins are extraordinarily persistent in the environment, resisting physical, chemical

and biological degradation for decades and longer. Because they are oil soluble, they

bio accumulate in fatty tissue and are found in highest concentrations in dairy products,

eggs, meat and fish. Humans are particularly contaminated because of eating at the

apex of the food chain. The highest concentrations of dioxins are in human breast milk,...

imagine that...., and nursing infants take in 10-20 times as much dioxin daily as does the

average adult. Worse yet, a nursing mother rids herself of half her body burden of dioxin

during six months of breast feeding.”

Andy Harris, MD, PSR.org. “Hazards of Medical Waste Incineration” Salem City Club,

September 23, 2005 andyharrismd@comcast.net

12. R. Jan Gurley, centerforhealthjournalism.org. “Whether retiring or fleeing, doctors are

leaving health care.” March 27, 2014