reading response

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/earth/long-delayed-rulings-on-endangered-species-are-coming.html

     The article informs its reader on the animal on the endangered species list and the posibility of still adding more animals to the list. this year the Oregon spotted frog is considered by federal protection as endangered species. An animal that has been endangered since 1982 is the eastern massasauga rattlesnake. 
      A services held on Feb. 8 by two lawsuits promised to to decide by September if to add 97 species to the endangered list. Still the service has over 550 potentital candidates for the endangered species list. They have started to increase decisions being made more have been positive. This is having much impact on wildlife. The economy has very little money for enviromental frivolities. Skeptics wonder if some animals have been waiting for decades to be listed as endangered. 
       What i think on the topic of the article is that the rate of endandagered animals is growing. The rate continues to inrease each year. Also the process of the animals to have to be approved to be listed as endangered isnt so good. This is becasue as the Skeptics said soem animals could have been waiting for decades to be on the endangered list. Meanwhile during their wait the poplution could have decreased a lot. 
 Overall the number of endangered animals continues tio increase. If it continues at this rate then there will soon be many animals on the endangered list. Also if there are animals that have been waiting for a while ro be approved soemthing should be done to help these animals. Their species could be at high risk just like the other animals that are already on the endangered list.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/unreported-side-effects-of-drugs-found-using-internet-data-study-finds.html?ref=science&_r=0

"Unreported side effects of drugs are found using Internet Search data finds"
by: John Markoff

             The article was about how some scientists were able to find evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects. The scientist were able to detect this even before the Food and Drug administration's warning  system.They used automated software tools to examine 6 million internet users taken from web search logs in 2010. they looked for seraches realted to antidepressent, paroxetine, and  cholesteral lowering drug, pravastatin. In their search they were able to find evidence that the combination of the two drugs caused high blood pressure. The study done was based on data-mining techniques. Phyicans are supposed to report side effetcs through an "Adverse Event Reporting System". But thhis only happens when a physican notices something.Scientist are taking a new approch by explorinf if it is possible to automate discoveries og "drug-drug" interactions by using FDA data reports. Dr. Altman  used a software for scanning anonymized data to look for searches that had been made on drug, symptom, and condition information.They are using this software to find more drug-drug interactions and their side effects.
                While reading this article you could see that the discoveries made were amazing. The scientist were able to find out connections between two drugs. what was even  more interesting was how they were able to discover how those two specific drugs when used together did have side effects that some people did not know of. The side effect was High Blood pressure. What Dr. Altman was trying to do with the software could be very helpful to many people. He was trying to use the software to find out of nay other drug combination that could have serious side effects.
   In conclusion the article is mainly fouscued on how the unknown connections between drugs can be aharmful to many. Also that there are many side effects that we go unaware of because no one knows about them existing.