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A pair of divergent stories on prescription drugs: ABC's in-house physician Richard Besser warned that the FDA has no power to compel the pharamaceutical industry to ramp up production when there are shortages of life-saving medication yet "the market system just is not working in this case"…NBC's Robert Bazell told us about new research on the placebo effect, the effect that makes medicine efficacious even if it has no active ingredient; now it appears the placebo helps patients even when they are told that the pill is useless.
A pair of peculiar stories inspired by pro-lifers: ABC's Dan Harris covered Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, who decided to excommunicate Saint Joseph's Hospital (Harris covered the defrocking of the administrator nun in June) because its doctors saved the life of a pregnant woman, eleven weeks into her term, by aborting the fetus that was causing terminal heart failure…Barry Petersen filed an American Spirit feature on CBS about a Denver toy drive run by a woman who miscarried a six-month pregnancy three years ago. Jessica Bachus gives Dolls for Daughters on behalf of the stillborn girl she calls "my angel Kenzi."
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