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[text] => Meanwhile, in Atlanta, a $2.5 million federal grant from The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has been given to Fulton County. This grant aims to provide assistance to Black and Latino men in the community, who are disproportionately affected by the epidemic. Retention of care and suppression rates among those who do have HIV are also intended goals of the grant.
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[text] => Overseas, Glasgow, Scotland reports major strides in HIV treatment and prevention, with over 90% of people there living with diagnosed HIV seeking treatment. This fall, Johnson & Johnson will test an HIV vaccine across North America, South America, and Europe. Results will be available in 2021.
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[text] => Roundup, a popular weed killer manufactured by the agribusiness giant Monsanto, sits at the center of an ongoing health controversy. Reports of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other cancers linked to its main ingredient, glyphosate, have sparked debates about the safety of the world's most widely-used herbicide.
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[text] => First registered for public sale in 1974, glyphosate is predominantly used in agriculture, forestry, lawn and garden care. Glyphosate works by interrupting the shikimate pathway, a metabolic function in plants. Plants use the shikimate pathway to produce amino acids. When the path is interrupted, pesky weeds cannot survive.
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[text] => In 2016, Newsweek magazine reported glyphosate’s rise as the most-used weed killer in the world. Only one year prior, in 2015, the World Health Organization’s International Agency For Research on Cancer (IARC) stated the herbicide was “probably carcinogenic to humans." Approximately 220 million pounds of glyphosate were used across the United States that same year.
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[text] => While no direct scientific link between glyphosate and cancer has been established, anti-GMO and other environmental advocacy groups stress that the incidence of cancer after using Roundup is too high to ignore.
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[text] => Farm workers, landscapers, nursery workers, and others in occupations that require frequent use of herbicides like Roundup are most at risk of developing illness as a result of exposure. People who regularly use Roundup for their own home gardens, lawns, and ranches are also at risk.
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[text] => Monsanto has responded to claims against Roundup, saying that more than 800 studies, some conducted internationally, vouch for glyphosate’s safety. Spokeswoman Charla Lord said, “Regulatory authorities in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Australia have publicly reaffirmed that glyphosate does not cause cancer.”
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[text] => Human, animal, and cell studies conducted by IARC found glyphosate in the blood and urine of farm workers, increased risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and tumor formation in some animals. Other illnesses allegedly attributed to Roundup use include renal cell carcinoma, pancreatic cell tumors, and chromosomal damage.
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[text] => Regulating Roundup Across The Globe
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[text] => Just a few months ago, Judge Kristi Kapetan of the Fresno County Superior Court handed down a formal ruling against Monsanto, allowing California to list glyphosate as a chemical “known to the state to cause cancer.” This fell in accordance with Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.
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[text] => Roundup is still currently used in over 160 countries. Only Malta, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, and Argentina have all banned glyphosate entirely. Sri Lanka’s ban follows a reported five-fold increase in the amount of chronic kidney disease among its farming communities, which has unfortunately resulted in 20,000 deaths.
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[text] => Renowned German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, spoke with Argentinian pharmacologist and pediatrician, Ávila Vázquez, who stressed the dangers of pesticide drift faced by villagers residing next to soybean plantations sprayed with glyphosate.
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[text] => Dr. Vázquez and his team of researchers found the number of birth defects and deformations quadrupled between 1997 and 2008. “During that same period, the cultivation of soybean in the province increased sevenfold,” said Vázquez.
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[text] => In a rather ominous twist, Monsanto and other seed companies have extensively marketed the development and approval of genetically engineered (GE), herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops since 1996. GE-HT versions of cotton, corn, and soybeans have made it possible for farmers to apply glyphosate for months after crops had started growing. This has resulted in a 14.6-fold rise in global use from 112.6 million pounds in 1995 to 1.65 billion in 2014.
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[text] => While glyphosate may not directly cause cancer, it does contain animal fats and other ingredients that can foster conditions for cancer cells to flourish. The task now is to find or develop herbicides that will not cause a multitude of health problems.
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[text] => It is estimated that over 700 Roundup cancer claims have been filed in courts throughout the United States, and over 3,000 individuals have sought litigation against Monsanto.
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[text] => The decision handed down last month comes after a jury sided with a terminally ill former groundskeeper in August. Dewayne “Lee” Johnson claimed Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup left him dying of cancer. The verdict for Johnson was the first of some 8,000 cases against Monsanto over alleged cancer risks of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup.
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[text] => After Monsanto appealed, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos initially toyed with the idea of tossing out the landmark verdict against the agrichemical giant, as Law360 reported. Bolanos suggested she might grant a new trial due to “insufficiency of the evidence” — prompting shock and anger among jurors who reached the unanimous verdict.
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[text] => “I was just gobsmacked and outraged. I was astonished,” said Robert Howard, juror No. 4, in an interview with The Guardian. “Why do we have a jury system if the judge can just toss it out?”
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[text] => Glyphosate has been used commercially since 1974, even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1985 classified the chemical as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” In 2015, The International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, concluded glyphosate probably causes cancer in humans.
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[text] => Gary Kitahata, another juror, said he was convinced by the evidence presented by Johnson’s attorneys. That evidence, which included internal Monsanto emails, indicated the corporation had actively quashed critical research, at the same time it promoted and contributed to science to suggest glyphosate is safe.
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[text] => In cutting the Monsanto verdict, Judge Bolanos conceded it was “reasonable for the jury to conclude that Monsanto acted with malice by continuing to market and sell a dangerous product without a warning,” as Law360 reported.
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[text] => The plaintiffs, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, who are in their 70s, are both battling lymphoma. The two maintain that cancer treatment is giving them "chemo brain," undermining their capacity to thoroughly participate in their case with each passing day, as Law360 reported.
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[text] => Due to their advanced age and ailing health, their attorney, Michael Miller, petitioned a California court judge to schedule the Pilliod’s trial before Feb. 8. Miller said chemotherapy has wreaked serious side effects on his clients, including memory and hearing loss, double vision, seizures and “constant discomfort.”
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[text] => Still, Alameda Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou denied the Pilliods' request in a tentative ruling. The judge instead sided with Monsanto, agreeing that the Pilliods’ medical records show their cancers are in remission and a later trial wouldn’t harm their case.
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[text] => Monsanto, which was acquired this summer in a $66-billion megamerger by the German agrochemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG, said in a statement it doesn’t believe a “trial preference is warranted in this case and the company stands behind its products and will vigorously defend them,” as Law360 reported.
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[text] => In addition, Monsanto is facing lawsuits from at least 13,400 U.S. plaintiffs - an increase of 20 percent in just the past few months. Anticipated settlement terms, according to Fortune, could exceed $20 billion.
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[text] => Perhaps plaintiffs are encouraged by recent judicial trends. As reported in March, California juries awarded $289 and $80 million, respectively, to two men who alleged that Roundup played a significant role in the causation of their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. (A judge reduced the $289 million award down to $78 million.)
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[text] => Plaintiffs in Roundup trials received disheartening news as the federal government sided with Monsanto in the ongoing Roundup controversy this past week. On Aug. 7, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a statement that it will no longer approve of product labels in California claiming that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is carcinogenic.
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[text] => EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler made a statement on behalf of the agency, saying, "It is irresponsible to require labels on products that are inaccurate when EPA knows the product does not pose a cancer risk. We will not allow California's flawed program to dictate federal policy."
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[text] => Bayer has also dismissed claims that the company was planning to settle all Roundup litigation against them for $8 billion. The company believes such a settlement is "pure fantasy." Per Bayer’s CEO, the company is only interested in a settlement on “reasonable terms.”
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[text] => Dr. Sanjay Kumar, 53, of New Bern, North Carolina, was convicted on Monday for 13 counts of various crimes, including illegal distribution of oxycodone without a legitimate medical purpose. North Carolina prosecutors say the doctor, who ran his own sports medicine and rehabilitation practice, wrote more than 9,500 opioid prescriptions between 2011 and 2016—typically without prior examination— in what's been described as a "cash-only pharmaceutical enterprise." Now, Kumar, who has not had his medical license renewed since 2017, faces significant jail time and fines.
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[text] => In scientific news, a study published in JAMA Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery found that doctors are still prescribing opioids for 60% of tonsillectomies in the U.S, despite 2011 guidelines that recommend against prescribing opioids to children following tonsillectomies.
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[text] => In New York, pharmacies are being investigated for defrauding Medicare through PrEP pill buybacks. An unnamed source told the Queens Daily Eagle that pharmacies would pay residents money, use their HIV prevention pills to fill other residents’ prescriptions, and bill Medicare for many times the number of pills they were actually buying. Those who sold their HIV prevention medications would then use that money to support themselves.
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[text] => West Virginia has recently seen an increase in HIV diagnosis, with state officials claiming intravenous needle sharing and a lack of HIV prevention medication has created a “surge” in HIV infection. The incline began in March of this year and has continued with 71 new infections in a single county.
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