Oops: Harvard affiliate apologizes for promotion of �weak� study

CHICAGO, Oct 26:A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision earlier this week to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer, now saying the evidence was �weak.� Brigham and Women�s Hospital said in an e-mail to reporters that data in the paper, which was published Wednesday in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, �is weak, and that Brigham and Women�s Hospital media relations was premature in the promotion of this work.�