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Bias Is Found in Food Studies With Financing From Industry (New York Times) - Research studies financed by the food industry are much more likely to produce favorable results than independently financed research, a report to be published today said.

Industry money may bias drink studies (AP via Yahoo! News) - Does milk lower blood pressure? Does juice prevent heart disease? Beverage studies were four to eight times more likely to reach sweet conclusions about health effects when industry was footing the bill, a new report contends.

Pick Cash Flow Leaders In Industry Group (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Let's say you've picked an industry group that you like, but want to make sure you select the best firm.

Electronics show warns fear of change could hobble industry (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The world's largest consumer electronics show kicked off with its organizers warning that fear of piracy could scuttle the fast-sailing industry.

Biotech's boom and bust nature / Long-running industry conference begins in SF (San Francisco Chronicle) - As investors and industry executives gathered Monday in San Francisco for the longest-running biotechnology conference, the surge in one company's share price and the dramatic descent of another's delivered a textbook illustration of the sector's risky...

Gas industry called on to aid Port Keats road work (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - The Northern Territory Government says it will consider any offer from the local gas industry in the Daly River region to assist in the upgrade of the Port Keats road.

Does industry-funded research get juiced up? Study says yes (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - Beverage studies were four to eight times more likely to reach sweet conclusions about health effects when industry was footing the bill, a new report contends. Its authors claim to have done the first systematic analysis of such studies published from 1999 through 2003 in hundreds of journals worldwide. "We found evidence that's strongly suggestive of bias," said Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity ...

Mine industry ignores housing crisis: Mayor (ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance) - A Bowen Basin Mayor says the mining industry is ignoring the housing crisis in booming industrial towns like Moranbah.

Housing demand creating development boom, industry says (ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance) - The Housing Industry Association (HIA) says residential construction is playing a major role in northern Tasmania's development boom.

Drop in jet fuel costs has airline industry looking up (USA Today) - Gulf Coast jet fuel has dropped to its lowest price in nearly 13 months, and may be headed lower. That's boosted the outlook for a troubled U.S. airline industry in 2007 and has stoked investors' demand for airline stocks.