The patch provides patients with more even doses of medication, said Dr. Vincent Calabrese at Virginia Commonwealth University, who supervised a recent study of nine patients.

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They all showed improvements, with no side effects, Calabrese said.

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The Arnolds, who call themselves "independent-minded Democrats, " say they don't have political motivations and even hired Denis Calabrese, a former Republican operative, to run their foundation and build its strategy.

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It's the controversial thesis of University of Massachusetts toxicologist and school of public health professor Edward Calabrese that small doses of certain poisons may have the paradoxical effect of lengthening life spans.

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Calabrese says that many poisons follow, instead, a U-shaped curve: The death rate goes down as the dose climbs from zero to a certain small amount, what you could call the optimal exposure.

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"They'll have access to all that information, so they can sell it, they can share it, they can do an awful lot with it, " Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for privacy-related issues with the ACLU, told CNN.com in September.

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"I subscribe to the 'if you build it, they will come' school of regulation, " said Chris Calabrese of the American Civil Liberties Union, who said he worried that the card would be required to board airplanes, to vote or perhaps purchase a firearm.

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