Daily Archives: November 7, 2009

NC court ends tobacco company payments in Md., Pa.

North Carolina’s highest court says three cigarette companies no longer have to make payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania through a decade-old settlement.
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StockSource.us on Stock With Breakout Potential

Del Mar, CA - The Mundus Group, Inc. is an advanced aerospace technology consortium providing patented Vertical Take Off and Landing technology for experimental aircraft and Unmanned Air Vehicles since 1990 through its fully owned VTOL division, Roadable Aircraft International .
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Questioning a Test for Cancer

Scaring people into quitting is the marketing rationale for a new genetic test, which purports to identify which smokers have the highest risk of developing lung cancer.
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Gauging the Risks From a Smoker’s DNA and History

To take Synergenz’s Respiragene test, consumers swab the inside of a cheek to get DNA and send the sample to a laboratory in Kentucky. The Synergenz Web site says a physician is required to sign a form requesting the test. The Respiragene test looks at 20 spots in a person’s genome where DNA varies among [...]

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