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The Great American Smokeout Is Your Chance To Start A Healthy Life
November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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Enrollment for Next Year’s Medicare Started
Enrollment for Medicare 2009 started Saturday. People 65 years of age or older who did not sign up...
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Plavix plus Heartburn Drugs Boost Patients’ Risk for Cardiac Events
A Medco Health Solutions study presented Tuesday at the
American Heart Association meeting in New...
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Childhood Allergies, Asthma Problems Require More Attention
A report released last month by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has
revealed that...
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Urinary Tract Infections Are Easily Treatable
Bad Wildungen, Germany - The most common symptoms of an acute urinary tract infection are a burning...
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More U.S. Children Take Medications For Chronic Diseases
The number of U.S children who take
medications for chronic diseases is growing dramatically, a...
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Due to The Amputee’s Case The Reach of Drug Warning Labels Is Finally Being Reconsidered
As they hear arguments in the case of Diana Levine against the drug company Wyeth, the U.S. Supreme...
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Supreme Court’s Decision in the Case Involving Drug Labels Awaited
Musician Diana Levine, who lost her arm eight
years ago after she received treatment with one of...
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Drug Prescriptions For US Children Rising At Alarming Rates
More and more children in the United States are prescribed
medication for chronic diseases,...
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Consumer Group Urges FDA to Ban Glaxo’s Avandia over Liver Failure
Consumer group Public Citizen on Thursday asked the Food and
Drug Administration to ban...
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Update: Survey Shows Many US Hospitals Get Low Scores On Pain Management
In an attempt to provide a portrait of
patients’ experiences in US hospitals, a team of...
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Combined Therapy Is The Best Cure For Disabling Anxiety
A government-financed study, which tracked nearly 500 patients for several months in treatment,...
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Statins May Cut Pneumonia Death Risk, New Study Shows
According to the results of a new study
featured in the October 27 issue of Archives
of Internal...
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Update: Bayer Is In Trouble Due To Aspirin Products
It appears that drug giant Bayer HealthCare is illegally marketing two unapproved aspirin...
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Prescription Drug-Related Injuries and Deaths Hit Record Levels
Deaths and injuries related to prescription drugs hit record
levels in the first quarter of 2008,...
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Personal Genome Project Makes Available The Personal Genome Of Volunteers
The genomes of 10 people, volunteers in the
Harvard Medical School’s
Personal Genome Project,...
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Parkinson’s Disease Linked to Vitamin D Insufficiency
A new study by US researchers has found
that Parkinson’s sufferers have insufficient levels of...
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WHO Is Concerned About Mental Health Worldwide
The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that the global financial crisis may contribute to...
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Study: Oregon Death with Dignity Act Not Very Effective
A recently-conducted survey revealed that the Death with Dignity Act enacted in Oregon in 1997...
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Pharmaceutical Industry Bans Cough, Cold Drugs For Kids Under 4
In response to fears that over-the counter cough and cold
medicines could harm children rather...
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Withdrawal Of Children’s Cough Medicines Requested By Physicians
Medical experts and consumer groups requested the Food and Drug Administration to pull children's...
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FDA Urged To Investigate Cold Medicine For Youngsters
During a
public hearing held Thursday, pediatricians have urged the Food and Drug
Administration...
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Long-Term Psychotherapy - More Benefic In Complex Mental Disorders
People with complex mental disorders such as personality
disorders should consider long-term...
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FDA Bans Importation of 28 Drugs from Indian Drugmaker
The Food
and Drug Administration has banned the importation of 28 drugs made by giant
Indian...
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Pfizer Halts Development of at least 11 Medications
New York - US pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer Inc. is ending the early-stage development of at least...
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Study: Heart Patients Are More Exposed To Depression
The American Heart Association released on Monday a series of guidelines concerning heart patients...
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Federal Health Insurance To Rise 7 Percent In 2009
Health insurance premiums for federal employees are expected to rise by an average of 7 percent in...
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U.S. Children Take More Psychotropic Drugs Than European Peers
According to a recent study, U.S. children are about three times more likely to be prescribed...
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Drug-Coated Stents Are Risk-Free For Heart Attack Victims
According to the largest study to date on the link between drug-coated stents and people who have...
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US Youths More Likely to Be Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs
A study published online today in the
journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health...
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DUI Misdemeanor Charge for Heather Locklear
Heather Locklear was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor
driving under the influence of legally...
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Mary-Kate Olsen Subpoenaed By DEA To Testify In Front Of Grand Jury
Actress Mary-Kate Olsen, who asked for immunity before cooperating with the police in the...
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DEA Suspicious over Ledger's Abundance of Prescription Pills
Autopsy results for Heath Ledger released Wednesday confirm that the actor died from an accidental...
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Heath Ledger Died of Six-Drug Accidental Overdose
Heath Ledger, 28, died of accidental intoxication brought on by his abuse of a cocktail of...
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Brain Surgery Allows Woman To Listen Sean Paul’s Music Again
After years of suffering numerous, unpredictable epilepsy seizures triggered by Sean Paul’s music,...
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Dennis Quaid Sues Baxter Corporation
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington
decided to file a lawsuit against the...
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Lynne Spears Blames Herself for Britney's Hardships
Britney Spears’ mother is like most mothers around the world: she reproaches herself for her...
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Lynne's Parenting Book, A Dedication to Britney?
Lynne Spears apparently considers this a good time to publish her own little book on raising...
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Californian Authorities Raid Six Locations In Anna Nicole Smith Probe
California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that the Californian
raided six locations Friday...
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Britney Turns to Mom for Help
With all the chaos thriving in her life lately, Britney seems to have decided to turn to her No. 1...
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Husband Accuses Country Star Sara Evans of Adultery
Sara Evans’ divorce is turning into an ugly “he said, she said”-type of thing....
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Al Gore III Pleads Guilty And He Is Sentenced To Drug Rehab
Albert Arnold Gore III, the son of the former US Vice
President Al Gore, pleaded guilty Monday to...
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Anna Nicole's Death Accidental
Officials have set the record straight: there was no foul play in the death of the (in)famous Anna...
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Death By Accident: Anna Nicole’s Sad Demise
There was no foul play in the death of the (in)famous Anna Nicole Smith, model, actress and mother...
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Britney’s Mom To Keep Away From Her Grandchildren?
According to recent reports, a series of new pictures show Britney Spears while she’s handing her...
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