We have to recognize that studies that carefully assess the effects of an exposure on health are extremely difficult to carry out correctly without the errors of bias and confounding and, thus, are of variable reliability and validity.

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Now that Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has caved in on calls to raise the capital gains tax, wealth taxes and VAT taxes, the European debt variable likely holds more pain ahead as the on-going anti-growth fiscal bias on the continent will lead to slower growth and falling government tax revenues as a result.

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