Although my parents and I talked a lot over the years about my stuttering, about therapy and how best to deal with oral book reports, the big question of what the impediment might mean for my future went pointedly undiscussed.

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The Center immediately assigns its interns to substantial research projects, from which they must produce reports, issue briefs, memoranda and oral evaluations to Center staff members.

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The FDA has received additional reports of esophageal cancer in people taking oral bisphosphonates since 2009, says Wysowski, an epidemiologist at the branch of the agency responsible for tracking the safety of drugs after they have been approved.

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One of these oral medicines, Sensipar, made by the global biopharmaceutical company Amgen, has been singled out in media reports, even though there are up to five other products affected that account for two thirds of the spending in this group of medicines.

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