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November 4, 2003

Bangkok Post

• Treating health care concerns

  There are moves afoot in the United States to ban the use of medical products made of PVC for fear they pose health risks. This will have broad repercussions. PVC is used in all sorts of essential products. 

People go to hospitals to get healthy. But a new study by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reveals that medical injuries at hospitals kill more than 32,000 patients a year in America.It obviously makes no sense to make hospitals more dangerous. Yet the group Health Care Without Harm is campaigning against medical products made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

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July 19, 2002

Fox News

• IV-Bag Scare Drips Junk Science

  Question: When is no data all the data you need for a health scare? Answer: When the driving force is the insidious "precautionary principle."

  The Food and Drug Administration warned us this week about plastic intravenous (IV) bags and tubes made with the chemical di-2ethylhexyl-phthalate (DEHP). Minute amounts of DEHP can leach from the vinyl into liquids.