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From the NY Times: A new drug for acne, Aczone, was approved in July, but with a catch. The Food and Drug Administration said it would require that patients first be tested for an enzyme deficiency that could put them at risk of developing anemia from the drug. The age of personalized medicine is on the way. Increasingly, experts say, ...

More on the convergence of TV and internet. In separate moves, the CBS and NBC Universal television networks said yesterday that they would start selling reruns of their top new shows within hours of their broadcast for 99 cents an episode through video-on-demand services on cable and satellite. For the  Comcast Corporation and DirecTV, the cable and satellite companies whose ...

The Fall chill is in the air, and you know what that means: Yes, Relay For Life planning is starting. And in the 2006 "Relay season," as we call it, maybe more Relay bloggers will be active. To get things rolling, Trish Snyder and Chris Dover (where are you now, Chris?) are posting to Relayblogger. Better yet, Trish has started ...

The American Cancer Society’s Great American Smoke Out is incorporating blogs to support the effort.  The GASO blogs can be found at www.quitnowblog.org and are written by university students who are trying to quit smoking.  The blogs chronicle their struggles with quitting and capture the real struggle of how difficult it is to break an addiction to tobacco.  I commend ...