Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2010-03-10

In this issue:  New advice about prostate cancer, and
thoughts on the cause of Toyota's unintended acceleration
problem.

---Health---
AskMen says new advice from the American Cancer Society puts
a sharper focus on the risks of prostate cancer screening,
emphasizing that annual testing can lead to unnecessary
biopsies and treatments that do more harm than good.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=405895
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=405895

---Toyota---
Claims by Dave Gilbert on ABC News and before Congress about
how easy it is for Toyotas to accelerate out of control
involve manipulations of electrical circuits that are
extremely unlikely to occur in practice.  Furthermore,
Popular Mechanics says no case of sudden unintended
acceleration has been attributed to bad wiring.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=406270
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=406270