If CDER is allowed to re-write the history of Avandia, this vital FDA Center will continue to function as an unsupervised, self-regulating bureaucracy, accountable to no one.

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But the Center's most important function is as a repository for images and records about collectors, dealers and specific works of art, going back hundreds of years.

WSJ: The Art of Collecting

The study authors, Dr Murray Mittleman and colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, measured kidney function using a recognised test called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).

BBC: Kidney problems linked to traffic fumes

The new Roku Search function is front and center (once your second gen HD or higher player has been updated to the latest version) and in our tests worked quickly, pulling up content wherever it was available and mentioning if it was available in HD.

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The lack of a notification center, combined with an interface that periodically overwhelms function with form (such as the highly stylized but limited email view), only compounds problems if it's genuinely vital that you spot and deal with an emergency in minutes.

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Most center around the framework conditions that allow market forces to function properly, so that the seeds sown by investors and entrepreneurs fall on fertile soil.

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It was the function at Princeton Junction where Princeton University's Center for African American Studies hosted a first-ever academic conference called Ain't That a Groove: The Genius of James Brown.

NPR: A Tribute to James Brown

Researchers from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, US, found that the hormone caused a drop in lung function in asthmatics.

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