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Photo illustration by Phil Wooley Local television stations often add health reports to their usual coverage, but the information they dispense is not all that useful, according to a new study. Sometimes it's flat-out wrong. Four broadcasts, for example, suggested that lemon juice could be used as a contraceptive or prevent HIV transmission, even though the original study, by a scientist at the University of Melbourne, was only conducted in a test tube.

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