The Consumer Reports data covered almost 500 physician practices, one third of which were pediatric practices.
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"Get prepared to receive this letter, " says Dr. John Santa, director of the Consumer Reports health ratings center.
We honed our selection from the Consumer Reports list of Recommended Cars.
The report is currently available on the Consumer Reports website and will appear in the October issue of the magazine.
"You can lose your reputation in a year, but it takes five to 10 years to rebuild it, " said David Champion, senior director of the Consumer Reports Automotive Test Center.
In 2008, four in 10 car buyers cited environmental factors as important, according to the consumer watchdog Consumer Reports.
The S430 Consumer Reports used for its own test came with a broken "back" button on the navigation system.
That spot may be especially timely given renewed criticism of the MyFord Touch infotainment platform by the influential Consumer Reports magazine.
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The efforts didn't register with the readers Consumer Reports surveyed.
Given the discrepancy between Consumer Reports' explanation of the reception problem and the explanation provided by Apple in its July 2 letter to customers, I am concerned that the nearly two million purchasers of the iPhone 4 may not have complete information about the quality of the product they have purchased.
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However, both the FDIC and Consumer Reports warn of consumers of the dangers of prepaid cards.
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Such an outburst is uncharacteristic of the traditionally staid Consumer Reports, whose evaluations of vehicles over the decades have been broadly respected in large part because they carried the perceived disinterest of a Congressional Budget Office report or those beauty-pageant votes tallied by accounting firms.
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Last week, Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, released a report on consumer attitudes to the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture.
The Consumer Union, which owns Consumer Reports, is no stranger to legal battles with automakers over their ratings having survived previous controversies with Isuzu Motors, Suzuki Motor, and Mitsubishi Motors.
Moreover, the 2010 study "Staying Connected on the Go: A Look at In-Vehicle Smartphone Integration Systems" conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association reports that 55 percent of smartphone owners prefer voice commands as their user interface for in-car smartphone integration, making the business case for SYNC and AppLink even more compelling.
By then it will be time to focus short-term again on the next monthly economic reports, from the housing industry, consumer confidence, and employment reports.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, the consumer price index, real earnings, new residential construction, industrial production and capacity utilization, and the IMF world economic outlook.
On the economic fundamentals, another bailout of Greece, and a one-month bump in the ISM Mfg Index are hardly an indication that the economic slowdown has ended, given the continuing dismal reports on consumer spending, consumer and business confidence, the depressed housing industry, and the jobs picture.
And on the fundamentals, another bailout of Greece, and a minor one-month bump in the ISM Mfg Index were hardly indications the global economic slowdown has ended, not given the continuing dismal reports on consumer spending, consumer and business confidence, the depressed housing industry, and the jobs picture.
Specifically, Ford is dealing with the fallout from the latest chapter of a prolonged campaign by Consumer Reports magazine to shame the MyFord Touch infotainment system, which essentially is Version 2 .0 of Sync with lots more features.
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But the bad news is that the reports since, on consumer confidence and retail sales in July and August, have been big disappointments.
At the same time, as Automotive News noted, before this report, the largest mileage discrepancies found by Consumer Reports were 7 and 6 mpg for the Prius c and regular Prius.
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Just weeks after the magazine assailed Ford for how the complexity of the MyFord Touch system continued to confuse American car buyers, Consumer Reports alleged that the Ford Fusion Hybrid delivered only 39 mpg in its tests of the vehicle in highway and city driving, far short of the 47 mpg Ford claims for the model.
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And so is a round of scathing reviews from auto critics, as with the Chrysler 200 Convertible, or a Consumer Reports rating that places it among the very worst values of the year (like the now-discontinued Dodge Nitro).
For its part, Ford has been quick to defend MyFord Touch against the new broadside from Consumer Reports.
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With the assistance of supplement manufacturers, the FDA does track consumer reports of side effects and other problems, however.
Second, go read the April issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
Shares of the electric carmaker surged 20.8% in morning trading, driven higher by surprisingly strong profits after the bell Wednesday and a rave review of the Model S from Consumer Reports.
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In a review posted on the organization's website, researchers with Consumer Reports said they would not recommend the product for purchase.
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