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• By: Henry I. Miller
• 09/06/2004

Morning sickness –the nausea and vomiting that afflict more than half of pregnant women –can be debilitating.  There once was…

Health and Safety

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 09/01/2004

I never knew my maternal grandparents.  During the nineteen-teens, my maternal grandmother died of a wound infection following a routine gall-bladder operation.  A…

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• By: Henry I. Miller
• 08/25/2004

As a fresh-faced medical intern, a colleague of mine once greeted a new patient with a breezy, “So what’s your problem?”  “Oh, just a touch…

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• Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 08/20/2004

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Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 08/17/2004

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />California is under attack by parasites, of both the six-legged and two-legged variety.  The former are…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 05/24/2004

Sir, The premise of Steven Druker’s rant that the US criticises Europe’s application of the precautionary principle yet uses it itself (“America’s hypocrisy over modified…

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 05/05/2004

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 05/04/2004

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 04/19/2004

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> There is an old saying among political veterans in <?xml:namespace prefix =…

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 04/15/2004

The first Earth Day celebration, conceived by then-US Senator Gaylord Nelson, was held in 1970 as a “symbol of environmental responsibility and stewardship.” In the spirit…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 03/30/2004

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's biotechnology regulations have been a shambles for more than fifteen years.  Its compulsory case-by-case review and costly field…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 10/24/2003

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 10/16/2003

“How can you tell whether a whale is a mammal or a fish?” a teacher asks her third-grade class. “Take a vote?” pipes…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 10/06/2003

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality.  Noting that developing countries invest much less…

Health and Safety

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 10/05/2003

Americans take nothing as seriously as the need to protect the health and safety of our children.  Public concern about environmental harms has intensified…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 09/10/2003

The European Parliament voted earlier this summer to change the way it regulates gene-splicing, or genetic modification (GM) technology, possibly opening the way…

Health and Safety

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 09/04/2003

The latest mutation of the Precautionary Principle–which would heavily regulate, if not prohibit, any product, technology or activity that is in any way incomplete–is…

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 08/16/2003

Regulatory officials in the European Union seem to be ignorant of the rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging. Numerous analyses…

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• By: Henry I. Miller
• 07/28/2003

Agricultural biotechnology suddenly is headline news—the focus of a vitriolic trans-Atlantic trade squabble, and even the subject of pointed public comments by President…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 06/24/2003

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America learned long ago that what's good for General Motors isn't necessarily good for the country.

Health and Safety

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 06/05/2003

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Warnings about one societal danger or another often portray children as the likeliest or…

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 06/03/2003

  America’s challenge to EU policies toward agricultural and food biotechnology is far more complex and subtle than is conveyed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert…

Health and Safety

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 04/11/2003

  The way in which scientific endeavors are pursued globally is marked by clear inequalities, said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in a recent…

Health and Safety

• By: Henry I. Miller, Sam Kazman
• 11/25/2001

Miller and Kazman Op-Ed in National Review Online The recent germ-warfare attacks are cause for concern, but so is one proposed government response:…

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 08/01/2001

Conko and Miller Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Europe<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  …

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 07/26/2001

Miller Op-Ed in The Washington TImes Miller Op-Ed in The Washington Times     A persistent criticism of the…

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• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 06/01/2001

Miller and Conko Article Published In Policy Review<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Environmental and public health activists have clashed with scholars…

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• By: Henry I. Miller
• 02/11/2001

California Gov Published February 12, 2001 The National Post (Canada)   Self-styled environmentalists have been virtually unanimous in opposing biotechnology,…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 02/03/2001

Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times February 4, 2001   The sad…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 10/27/2000

Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times October 27, 2000 Headline: Biotech Food Labeling…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 10/12/2000

Distributed nationally by Copley News Service Published in the Washington Times October 12, 2000   Kraft Foods has…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 10/05/2000

Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune October 5, 2000 Headline: A Much Higher…

Medicines and Medical Devices

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 05/26/2000

  Reprinted with permission by the Washington Legal Foundation. For more information, please see www.wlf.org.             Agricultural biotechnology…

Health and Safety

• By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
• 03/31/2000

In an editorial last month, this journal pointed out that the biosafety protocol recently completed in Montreal “violates a cardinal principal of regulation—namely, that the…

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