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		<title>Scleroderma study brings little comfort</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[S. Boston cluster may be genetic, not environmental, but true cause is elusive
Elizabeth Lombard is among the residents of South Boston who has scleroderma, the autoimmune disease that hardens muscles and internal organs. Elizabeth Lombard is among the residents of South Boston who has scleroderma, the autoimmune disease that hardens muscles and internal organs. (Suzanne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams dashed on contaminated land</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toxic legacy: Examining the old Parker Street dump
By BECKY W. EVANS
NEW BEDFORD — A Standard-Times photograph snapped at a groundbreaking ceremony for New Bedford High School on Jan. 17, 1970, captures the excitement surrounding the building of one of the state&#8217;s largest and most modern high schools at that time.
Pictured in the photo are then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer study triggers debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clustera</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Thomas Burke]]></category>
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Cape Cod Times
Cancer study triggers debate

By Robin  Lord
STAFF WRITER
January 27, 2008 
A longtime skeptic of the Air Force&#8217;s PAVE PAWS early  warning station in Sagamore has set his sights on the state health  department.
Dr. Richard Albanese, a physician who works for the Air  Force, claims a recent state Department of Public Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing tonight on radar safety Two studies have found no public health risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hearing tonight on radar safety

Two studies have found no public health risks

Cape Cod Times
		
By George Brennan
		
gbrennan@capecodonline.com

July 15, 2008 6:00 AM

No public health risks linked to PAVE PAWS.

BOURNE — The public will have a chance tonight to comment on recent studies that conclude PAVE PAWS, an Air Force radar station, poses no health risks to Cape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAVE PAWS draft EIS draws two comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee Lewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PAVE PAWS draft EIS draws two comments

July 16, 2008 6:00 AM

BOURNE — One critical comment and another in support, that&#8217;s all a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on PAVE PAWS generated at a public hearing last night.

Bernard Young, whose daughter died from Ewing&#8217;s sarcoma in January, said the results of health studies summarized by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disease cluster mystery</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2008/04/21/disease-cluster-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston GLOBE EDITORIAL

Disease cluster mystery

October 14, 2007

FOR MORE than 20 years, health officials have known about a puzzling concentration of the neurodegenerative illness known as Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease in the southeastern Massachusetts town of Middleborough. In the coming months, a study financed by the federal government and conducted by state environmental health scientists might answer [...]]]></description>
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