Event class: health, medical, research, use, public, act, report, government, drug, published

Events with high posterior probability

Abram Hoffer	In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association reported methodological flaws in Hoffer's work on niacin as a schizophrenia treatment and referred to follow-up studies that did not confirm any benefits of the treatment, prompting at least two responses.
Mike Leavitt	In June 2006, Leavitt came under criticism for using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Gulfstream III Emergency Response aircraft to, primarily, promote the newly reformed Medicare plan.
Christopher Booker	In a High Court judgement in April 2011, Judge Bellamy stated that :'' Mr Booker's articles contain significant factual errors and omissions'', and took issue with Booker on two cases he had covered :'' In the first article Mr Booker gives the impression that it was' faint bruising' which prompted the parents to take L to hospital and which gave rise to what he clearly regards as the over-zealous and unjustified actions of social workers working for the same local authority so recently criticised by me in Re X, Y and Z (Children).
Carla Antonelli	The law was adopted in 2007, and she was the first transsexual person in the Community of Madrid to obtain the amended sex designation on her legal documents.
John A. Todhunter	In several meetings, in the context of an August 1981 fruit fly outbreak in California, and while being lobbied by Florida's congressional delegation on behalf of the industry, Todhunter resisted a ban, which was not approved until he left office.
Corwin Samuel West	In 1980, West wrote a 31-step equation he titled the'' Formula for Life and Death at the Cell Level'', based on the blood-protein research which he had learned at that time for the purpose of validating and emphasizing the role of the lymphatic system and its overall importance in effectuation for the sake of preventing, eliminating and if possible even reversing pain, degenerative disease, and premature death.
Ralph Nader	Nader's advocacy of automobile safety and the publicity generated by the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, along with concern over escalating nationwide traffic fatalities, contributed to Congress' unanimous passage of the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
Geoffrey Edelsten	Following the Australian government's 2008 decision to open'' GP Super Clinics'' in 31 locations across the nation, Edelsten challenged the Department of Health's use of the word'' superclinic'', which he claimed to be a registered trademark belonging to Allied Medical Group.
Neil Seeman	Writing in the peer-reviewed Canadian Medical Association Journal in August, 2013, University of Toronto Professor Terrence Sullivan offered a balanced critique of the authors' idea for'' healthy living vouchers'' to curb obesity by'' empowering the citizen as consumer and he or she will choose wisely and buy lifestyle, diet and exercise experiences tailored to his or her needs to lose weight... Despite the paucity of pragmatism the authors wisely note that no single solution to obesity has appeared to date with other techniques.
Anne P. Mitchell	In 1998, Mitchell closed her fathers' rights practice, and changed her focus to Internet law and anti-spam efforts.
Georges De Moor	# Ceusters W, De Moor GJE, Training of Health Care Personnel Towards the Implementation and Use of Electronic Health Care Records based on Integrated Imaging Technology, Medical Informatics ; 1992 ; 17 ; 4:215 -225.
Sid McMath	His cases set a broad range of legal precedents, including the first million-dollar personal injury verdict in a U. S. District Court (for an injured Arkansas River barge crewman, in 1968), a woman's right to recover for the loss of her husband's consortium (an element of damage previously limited to men), manufacturers' responsibility for harm caused by defective products and negligent advertising encouraging their misuse, the chemical industry's liability for crop and environmental damage, drug companies' responsibility for fatal vaccine reactions in children, gun dealers' fault for the negligent sale of firearms, and the right of workers to sue third-party suppliers for job injuries.
Henry Morgentaler	He started as a general practitioner in 1955 but increasingly specialized in family planning, becoming one of the first Canadian doctors to perform vasectomies, to insert intra-uterine device s, and to provide birth control pills to the unmarried.
John A. Lawless	In February 2001, Lawless gained nationwide media attention when he began an effort to withhold state funding for Penn State University because of'' Sex Faire,'' a student event featuring information on cervical cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, and safe sex practices that he labeled'' classless acts of debauchery.''
Andriy Slyusarchuk	Journalists of L'viv newspaper'' Ekspres'', in a series of publications in October -- November 2011, accused Andriy Slyusarchuk of forgery, fraud, illegal medical practice, which led to injuries and deaths of patients treated by him.
Paul Popenoe	In 1909, California had enacted its first compulsory sterilization law which allowed for sterilization of the mentally ill and mentally retarded in its state psychiatric hospital s. With Popenoe as his scientific workhorse, Gosney intended to study the sterilization work being done in California and use it to advocate sterilization in other parts of the country and in the world at large.
Eliot Slater	He resigned in 1964 in protest at the hospital's rejection of the offer of a benefaction from the Mental Health Research Fund to establish a chair in psychiatry, writing in his resignation letter that the collective views of his colleagues had ``... turned increasingly counter to everything for which I have stood'', and that they had failed to appreciate the need for academic research in psychiatry.
Stephan Berwick	In 2008, Stephan created the True Strength training regimen which promises internal and external physical benefits for both health and combat preparation.
Lawton Chiles	In 1992, Chiles created the Florida Healthy Start program to provide a comprehensive prenatal and infant care program available to all pregnant women and infants across the state ; since the program's inception the state's infant mortality rate has dropped 18 %.
Eric Ehrmann	After being diagnosed with depression and chronic anxiety disorder in 1992 his psychiatrist prescribed the SSRI anti-depression medication Zoloft, which, while helping to mediate his feelings dealing with his cancer diagnosis, modified his personality in ways that are described in product literature and other publicly available information.
Max Gerson	In 1947, the National Cancer Institute reviewed 10 claimed cures submitted by Gerson ; however, all of the patients were receiving standard anticancer treatment simultaneously, making it impossible to determine what effect, if any, was due to Gerson's therapy.
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro	In 1976, a presentation was made to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences urging the use of their good offices to get Ilya an exit visa.
Elizabeth Kenny	In 1940, the New South Wales government sent Kenny (and her adopted daughter Mary, who had become an expert in Kenny's method) to America to present her clinical method for treating polio victims to American doctors.
Christine Burns	At the Commission for Social Care Inspection conference in 2007 she explained that trans service users, relatives, professional stakeholders and care staff are often vulnerable and require protection from abuse.
Linda Smith (American politician)	report, since 2006 Smith and Shared Hope International have partnered with Anti-Trafficking Task Forces in ten U. S. cities with funding from the U. S Department of Justice, to identify and provide services to American victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST).
Joseph Chamberlain	Deploring the rising death rate from contagious diseases in the poorest parts of the city, in January 1876, Chamberlain forcibly purchased Birmingham's waterworks for a combined sum of # 1,350,000, creating Birmingham Corporation Water Department, having declared to a House of Commons Committee that' We have not the slightest intention of making profit... We shall get our profit indirectly in the comfort of the town and in the health of the inhabitants'.
Leisha Harvey	These issues came to a head in March 1988 when Harvey put out a departmental memo insisting that she be given unrestricted access to the medical records of AIDS patients, sparking a bitter battle over patient confidentiality, and repeated Opposition calls for her to be removed from the portfolio.
James Nachtwey	Nachtwey's wish, revealed March 8, 2007, is this :'' There's a vital story that needs to be told, and I wish for TED to help me gain access to it and then to help me come up with innovative and exciting ways to use news photography in the digital era.''
Glen Maxey	In 2001, Maxey discussed this watershed moment in HIV and AIDS awareness in an interview with the Austin Chronicle : As Maxey recalls the episode,'' It was very early in the AIDS crisis, the disease was n't very well understood, and the commissioner of health began talking about declaring HIV a' quarantinable disease.'
Pyotr Grigorenko	Only in 1992, the official post-mortem forensic psychiatric commission of experts met at Grigorenko's homeland removed the stigma of mental patient from him and confirmed that the debilitating treatment he underwent in high security psychiatric hospitals for many years was groundless.
Jules Eden	Eden was responsible for creating the first online medical service in the in UK, the'' e-Med'' online medical clinic, in March 2000, offering diagnosis and prescriptions over the internet.
E. Fuller Torrey	In the same journal in 1999, Torrey and Miller of the Stanley Foundation Research Program argued for an incentivised schizophrenia treatment system backed by a credible threat of force, modelled on that used for the fatal infectious disease Tuberculosis ; replies criticized the logic of the analogy and resort to forced drugging rather than developing alliances and understanding, to which Torrey accused the director and members of MindFreedom International of living off federal funds while denying illness and not caring about the mentally ill on the streets and in prisons.
Ronald Singson	On February 23, 2011, judge Joseph Yau agreed with Singson that the drugs were for his own personal use, since that he did not need to traffic drugs to maintain a living considering he is a member of a wealthy family, although he contended that Singson overstated his level of drug use.
Tim O'Reilly	In 1996, O'Reilly fought against a 10-Connection Limit on TCP/IP NT Workstations, writing a letter to the United States Department of Justice, Bill Gates, and CNN, concerned that the Internet is still in its infancy, and that limitations could cripple the technology before it ever has a chance to reach its full potential.
Hubertus Strughold	In October 1942, Strughold attended a medical conference in Nuremberg at which SS physician Sigmund Rascher delivered a presentation outlining various medical experiments he had conducted in conjunction with the Luftwaffe Medical Service in which prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp were used as human test subjects.
Daniel Berger	In 2008, without knowledge of Berger or his sub-investigators, an employee of Northstar Medical falsified some results in one drug trial.
Mark Simmonds	In 2012 he apologised to Parliament for failing to mention an interest in Circle Healthcare when speaking in support of the Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament.
Albert R. Jonsen	In 1979, Jonsen was appointed to the successor body, the President's Commission on the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine (1979 -- 82) which devised reports on brain death, foregoing life-support, informed consent and other topics that have become the main subjects of bioethics.
Yang Yongxin	Chinese health regulation had stopped the device from being manufactured since 2000, and reports brought into question whether Yang acquired these devices illegally.
Gareth Bale	On 26 March 2013, Bale filed an application with the Intellectual Property Office to register a logo based on his'' heart'' goal celebration along with his squad number, 11, to be used on a range of merchandise such as clothing and footwear.
Kate Leigh	Leigh also exploited the passage of the Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act 1927 in NSW by providing lucrative illicit criminal distribution networks for the high-demand cocaine it criminalized.
Bankole Johnson	Johnson's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) paper, titled `` Topiramate for treating alcohol dependence : a randomized controlled trial'' and published in 2007, gained national and international media attention.
Piero Corti	Once again Corti wanted to climb, so after many tests to prove his health, he left for the Ruwenzori in 1991, while Lucille was worsening because of AIDS, which she had contracted after an operation.
Richard Doll	In 1950, he then undertook with Austin Bradford Hill a study of lung cancer patients in 20 London hospitals, at first under the belief that it was due to the new material tarmac, or motor car fumes, but rapidly discovering that tobacco smoking was the only factor they had in common.
Gideon Raff	In 2012, as part of a PETA campaign, Raff wrote to both the United States Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, to protest against use of live animals to train army doctors in battlefield surgery.
John M. Crewdson	In 1994, he wrote about a scandal in breast cancer research that led to strengthening government scrutiny of clinical trials.
Tara Teng	In May 2013, Gussie Kooijman, an adolescent girl, wrote an opinion piece that was published in the Times Colonist supporting Teng in raising awareness about prostitution and human trafficking in Canada ; Kooijman supported the criminalization of the buying of sex rather than the selling of sex in Canada, in emulation of Sweden's Sex Purchase Act.
Manilal Doctor	Manilal made submissions for their report, published on 29 February 1916, which reported on the deplorable living conditions of the indentured labourers and their lack of access to education and medical facilities.
Theresa Two Bulls	When the rate of suicide rose among youth on the reservation in late 2009, Two Bulls declared a state of emergency to address the problem, gathered counselors to work with residents, and organized a call-in to President Barack Obama's White House to highlight the issue.
Sue Gardner	Gardner identified the'' turning point'' for her decision to move on as her involvement in the 2012 Wikipedia blackout protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, protests that'' started me thinking about the shape the Internet was taking and what role I could play in that.''
Jim Toy	In 1999 Jim and Dr. Sandra Cole, former Director of the University of Michigan Health System's Comprehensive Gender Services Program, wrote the language of Ann Arbor's non-discrimination policy regarding gender identity.
Joel Fuhrman	In 2012, Fuhrman launched his second PBS pledge program, entitled The Immunity Solution, which discusses the effect of dietary habits on the immune system and risk of cancer.
Hilda Solis	In July 2009, she expressed concern about workplace deaths among Hispanics, which she said they were especially vulnerable to (her continuing attention to issues such as this during her tenure would lead to Hispanic workers considering her their champion).
Calvin C.J. Sia	In a paper he presented in 1964 to the Hawaii Academy of Sciences on advances in neonatology, Sia cited progress in the care of premature babies but also noted that'' completeness'' of the first physical exam and the education of nurses to be on the alert for early signs of disabilities were possible ways to save newborns with previously lethal birth defects.
Melissa Farley	A 2002 study by Chudakov, et al. used Farley's PTSD instrument to measure the rate of post-traumatic stress disorder among sex workers in Israel.
Gordon Campbell	The Campbell government launched the Conversation on Health, a province-wide consultation with British Columbians on their health care to lay the groundwork for changes to the principles of the Canada Health Act that were presented in the Fall of 2007.
James Manby Gully	Then in 1846 Gully published The Water Cure in Chronic Disease, further describing the treatments available at the clinic.
Michael Betancourt	In'' Immaterial Value and Scarcity in Digital Capitalism,'' Betancourt proposed that the illusion of a rupture between physical and virtual production posed by the aura of the digital can be observed in the political economy of the United States, most especially in the Housing Bubble that bust in 2008.
Reynol Junco	Although some opponents have asked for a more balanced perspective and questioned whether the use of new technologies actually entails a positive qualitative change in learning, Junco's recent research (Junco, Heiberger and Loken 2010, the first controlled study of its kind) has shown that the use of social media such as Twitter in college classroom settings can significantly improve student performance.
Naheed Nenshi	However according to a paper entitled'' Managing the Cost of Growth'' published by the Manning Centre in October 2013 the report's recommendations coincided with Nenshi's campaign policy to abolish the subsidy to home building companies As long as inner city communities are likewise subjected to contributing to growth costs.
Jerry Morris	A member of numerous health advisory bodies, from the first Royal College of Physicians committee on smoking and air pollution in the 1950s to the Black committee on inequalities in health in 1979, his most recent and final published work was on the minimum income required for healthy living.
James O'Keefe	The videos were recorded during the summer of 2009 and appeared to show low-level ACORN employees in six cities providing advice to Giles and O'Keefe on how to avoid detection by authorities of tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution.
Sophie, Countess of Wessex	In 2006, the Countess also lent her support to the Born in Bradford research project, which is investigating causes of low birth weight and infant mortality.
Kerryn Phelps	She started working in health communications in the mainstream media in 1985, bringing messages about healthy lifestyle to the attention of the general public.
Jerrold Nadler	Nadler has also promoted legislation to extend Medicare benefits to individuals suffering from Ground Zero illness (physical ailments from the dust from the attacks) or mental health problems as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Fred Pooley	As well has sorting out various conflicts within the institute, he used his time to promote the broader benefits of architects at all levels of government, and in 1974 he was quoted in Parliament by Sydney Chapman with regards to the boom and bust construction cycles :'' The hand operated tap that used to produce stop-go in the building industry must be replaced by an automatic ball valve designed to allow sufficient work to flow to the industry to keep it working at the right level.''
Edith Pechey	In 1896, when bubonic plague struck the city, she played her part in public health measures, and criticisms she made of the way the crisis was handled proved to be influential in managing an outbreak of cholera.
S?verin Lachapelle	In 1880, Lachapelle said'' There is one particularly unsettling belief that is particularly widespread and deeply rooted in our families because it is shared by medical practitioners, and that is that there is no point in treating children's diseases.''
Mary E. Black	In 1932 she was transferred to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where a new hospital opened that was the first on the continent to use occupational (and recreational) therapy as a standard treatment for the mentally ill.
Claudio Costa (doctor)	For the first year the service was carried out by car to reach the various circuits with medical bag in tow, but in 1976 Dr. Costa to have imagined in a vehicle specially equipped for first aid even complex, suitable to meet the post-crisis initial-traumatic and allow a safer way to hospital.
Richard Johnston (politician)	He crusaded for improved benefits to the poor and disabled by attempting to live for a month on a'' welfare diet'' in 1982, limiting his food budget to that of the average person on welfare.
Mark Chignell	He participated in an 2003 experiment which gave doctors online access to medical databases through a handheld iPAQ PC, which led to changes in the decisions the doctors made.
Bill Henson	Ms Churcher says it would have been ridiculous to drag the case through the courts : On 6 June 2008 it was reported in The Age that police would not prosecute Bill Henson over his photographs of naked teenagers, after they were declared'' mild and justified'' and given a PG rating by the Australian Classification Board, suggesting viewing by children under the age of 16 is suitable with parental guidance.
Nick Minchin	In 1995 Minchin submitted a dissenting Senate report on the tobacco industry and the costs of tobacco-related illness that disputed the Committee's statements that it believes cigarettes are addictive and that passive smoking is harmful.
Charles Todd Quintard	Dr. Quintard's 1854 report on Memphis mortality statistics was covered in the New York Times, including his assessment of the city as being'' the first considerable place to be without the range of yellow fever,'' a boast that was to prove incorrect in the 1870s, when Memphis experienced several yellow fever epidemics.
George E. Davis	He also worked as an inspector for the Alkali Act of 1863, a very early piece of environmental legislation that required soda manufacturers to reduce the amount of gaseous hydrochloric acid released to the atmosphere from their factories.
Brian Ross (journalist)	In a broadcast on February 22, 2010 entitled'' Expert : Electronic Design Flaw Linked to Runaway Toyotas'' which aired the night before a Congressional Panel began investigating the issue of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles, Ross claimed that the problem was caused by a defect in the electronic system.
Bob Khanna	In 2006, Khanna was investigated by the General Dental Council Fitness to Practice Panel on an allegation of recommending expensive dental treatment without offering or adequately explaining alternative management options.
Joseph Everett Dutton	On 10 May 1901 the colonial surgeon at the hospital in Bathurst showed him a blood sample from a government employee with'' very many actively moving worm-like bodies whose nature he was unable to ascertain''.
Caroline Nokes	In October 2012 Nokes became an officer of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, which campaigns to raise awareness of body image, eating disorders, nutrition and health issues within the advertising industry, the health and fitness sector, media, youth organisations and Government.
Tzeporah Berman	In 2000, Berman co-founded ForestEthics, a group devoted to using tactics that would convince companies to change their ways or risk loss of sales.
Howard Martin	In June 2010, after being struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council for hastening the deaths of 18 patients, he admitted in a newspaper interview bringing forward the deaths of two patients, including his terminally ill son.
Ken Kurson	It was published by New Market Press in January 2010 to coincide with the release of Extraordinary Measures, the film dramatizing Crowley's work to find a treatment for his two youngest children who were diagnosed with Pompe Disease.
David Jay Brown	In 2007, Brown published Mavericks of Medicine which presented 22 interviews with doctors and biomedical researchers holding an unconventional stance on medicine.
Lila Rose	In May 2012, Rose released a series of videos showing employees at Planned Parenthood and NAF abortion centers advising patients on how to procure sex-selective abortions.
Lawrence W. Sherman	In February 2000, Sherman co-founded the Campbell collaboration's Crime and Justice Group, which has pursued the synthesis of research evidence on the effectiveness of policing and other crime prevention practices.
Hemant Goswami	This study by Hemant Goswami is used by the Government of India to justify the 2005 enacted delegated legislation prohibiting the use of tobacco in movies.
Milena Penkowa	Fifty-eight Danish researchers signed a letter requesting an open review of Penkowa's research, citing suspicions about data fabrication going back to her doctoral thesis in 2002.
Christine Robertson	The committee recommended that the names of children who commit crimes should continue to be suppressed so the'' stigma of being associated with a crime'' would not get in the way of the child's future rehabilitation In 2008, Robertson came out in support of besieged Federal politician Belinda Neal signing an open letter with eight other female politicians condemning the media over their treatment of Neal.
Larry Lawton	In 2008 Lawton founded Jewelry Robbery Prevention, a consultancy firm that works with insurance companies, private individuals, jewelry stores, police, and the media on how to better prevent jewel robberies, as well as explaining the mindset of jewel thieves to potential targets.
Richard Doll	In 1955 Doll reported a case controlled study that has firmly established the relationship between asbestos and lung cancer.
Royal Rife	Although' Rife devices' are not registered by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration and have been linked to deaths among cancer sufferers, the Seattle Times reported that over 300 people attended the 2006 Rife International Health Conference in Seattle, where dozens of unregistered devices were sold.
Ludwig Rehn	In 1895 Rehn reported cases of bladder cancer with workers, and people downriver of, the local aniline factories.
Fergus Walsh	In June 2007, he was one of a number of medical journalists who gave evidence to Parliament as part of the scrutiny of the Human Tissue and Embryos Bill.
Hugo Stephenson	Hugo founded Health Research Solutions (HRS) in 1999, a biotechnology services company that used the internet to manage the communication and data capture required for late phase clinical trials.
Peter Besler	In 2003, he was instrumental in obtaining the financing required to receive Health Canada approval for advancing this research through phase II human clinical trials.
Erich Honecker	During early 1992 conflicting reports emerged regarding Honecker's medical state and the existence of liver cancer which either increased or decreased the likelihood of extradition accordingly.
Karl M. Baer	After convalescence he was released from hospital in December 1906, with a medical certificate of his new gender.
James Fraser Mustard	In 1966, he was publicly criticizing the Canadian government's medical research funding practices, by stating that on average, 200 of the 900 medical doctors graduating from Canadian universities each year, were heading to the United States due to the lack of research funding in their home country.
Ju Ming	In 1976, Ju took up T'ai chi on Yang's advice to develop physical and mental discipline.