Based on the study Merck said it will move ahead with a massive 30, 000 patient study led by Oxford University to prove that anacetrapib can lower heart risk without causing other adverse effects.

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Doctors, researchers and the companies themselves would be free to share information about adverse side effects without legal consequences.

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During the FDA review that included reports from 30 participants using the device, the agency found that most patients performed basic tasks, like touching a square in a white field, better with the Argus II than without it and that 19 of the participants experienced no adverse effects to the surgery.

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Should the Bush Administration now enter into a START agreement without taking steps to insure against Soviet cheating on its terms, to correct the adverse effects of the ABM Treaty on the strategic balance and to protect against the prospect of growing third-country ballistic missile threats, the cumulative effect could be to seriously undermine U.S. security.

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