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Epilepsy Drug Valproate Tied to Lower IQs in Babies
Using anti-seizure drug valproate during pregnancy was associated with a higher risk of impaired...
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Teva Gets FDA Approval for Marketing Topamax Tablets
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said the Food and Drug Administration has given its approval...
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FDA Includes More Weight-Loss Products on Its Risk List
The Food and Drug Administration expanded its list of tainted weight loss products that consumers...
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Epilepsy Drug Zonegran Tied to Metabolic Acidosis
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday cautioned that epilepsy drug zonisamide (Zonegran)...
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FDA Warns about Skin Numbing Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday released a statement warning consumers about the...
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WellPoint Suspends Enrollment Of New Members In Medicare Health Plans
WellPoint, parent company to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin, and one of the largest...
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Sick Pelicans Worry Californians
The high number of sick pelicans that continue to appear all along the coast of California has...
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FDA Releases Warning For Diet Pills
The FDA has issued an alert after finding that undeclared drugs in seventy diet products could...
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Fifteen-Year-Old Dies From Bacterial Meningitis
Ashley Andreasen, a 15-year-old girl, died on Friday from bacterial meningitis, barely a...
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FDA: Epilepsy Drugs to Carry Suicide Risk Warning
The US Food and Drug Administration is ordering companies that make epilepsy drugs to add warning...
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Physical Brain Injuries In Veterans Have Long-Term Effects
For years, it was believed that the shell-shock syndrome experienced by many Vietnam War veterans...
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Report Calls For More Screening Of Brain Injury In Military Personnel
A report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine,
a government advisory group that studies...
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Epilepsy Drug in Pregnancy Increases Autism Risk
Pregnant women taking valproate, a drug used to treat
epilepsy, may significantly increase their...
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Lawsuit: Ind. Teen with HIV Bullied at School
The mother of a 14-year-old girl is suing an Indianapolis School district saying that...
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Banzel Approved by the FDA to Treat Severe Epilepsy
A new drug called Banzel (rufinamide) has
been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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Gardasil Gets FDA Approval for Two Types of Cancer
Friday, the
Food and Drug Administration informed that Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, which
prevents...
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Case of Deadly Brain Infection Prompts Labeling Revisal for Rituxan
The labeling for cancer and rheumatoid arthritis drug Rituxan
is being revised after the US Food...
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Controversial Ads for Chantix, Ambien Indirectly Name the Drugs
The controversial ad campaign initiated by Pfizer Inc., the
world’s largest pharmaceutical...
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Texas Girl, 6, Leaves Hospital Walking after Half of Brain Removed
A Texas girl was brought back home and is in a safe state after she had half her brain removed in...
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Elsinore Boy’s Death from Amoeba Prompts Officials’ Warnings
Riverside County health officials issued a warning on Tuesday
urging residents to take precautions...
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FDA Approves Depakote to Treat Epileptic Seizures, Migraine…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first generic versions of Depakote...
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Mom Charged with Poisoning Her Son to Get Psychiatric Treatment
A mother accused of deliberately injecting her 4-month-old
son with salt water will be sent to a...
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Epilepsy Drug Topamax Could Increase Birth Defect Risk
British researchers report in the July 22 issue of the
journal Neurology that pregnant women who...
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FDA Expert Panel Rejects Black Box Warning for Epilepsy Drugs
In a push for a black box warning on epilepsy drugs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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FDA Wants Black Box On Antibiotics, Epilepsy Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested black box warnings on fluoroquinolone antibiotics,...
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FDA: Epilepsy Drugs Should Carry Suicidal Warning
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says epilepsy drugs
should carry a “black box”...
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Aledo Girl Has Hemispherectomy, Recovering Well
A 6-year-old girl from Aledo,
Texas is recovering very well
after undergoing surgery on...
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FDA: Heartworm Drug ProHeart 6 To Return to US Market
ProHeart 6, a heartworm drug manufactured by Fort Dodge Animal Health, will be reintroduced to the...
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Pfizer Fights Back Chantix Criticism with Advertising Campaign
Following the negative publicity surrounding Chantix lately,
its manufacturer Pfizer Inc. is...
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Research on New Bug Repellents Has Promising Results
Following the increased risk of West
Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, researchers...
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Epilepsy Drug Could Impair Your Baby’s Cognitive Function
The use of anti-seizure drug valproate while pregnant may cause your baby harm, US researchers said...
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Severe Hypoglycemia in Older Diabetics Tied to Dementia
Type 2 diabetics who suffer hypoglycemia crises serious enough to need emergency care may be at...
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University of Pennsylvania on High Alert Over Meningitis Cases
University of Pennsylvania students are on high alert following three cases of meningococcal...
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Tom Cruise: It’s “Horrific” that Travoltas Lost Jett
As the private memorial service has been held in Florida for John Travolta’s 16-year-old son...
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Travolta’s Son’s Ashes Return to Florida
Tuesday, a Bahamian lawmaker informed that the body of 16-year-old Jett Travolta, actor John...
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John Travolta Did CPR to His Son, but in Vain
Actor John Travolta reportedly did everything he could to save his 16-year-old son’s life,...
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John Travolta’s 16-Year-Old Son Died in the Bahamas
John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, died on Friday in the Bahamas after suffering a seizure...
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4 Die in Strange Helicopter Crash
A medical helicopter carrying 1-year-old Kirstian Blockinger of Leland and heading for Children's...
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Air Angels Medical Helicopter Crashes, Four Dead
Aurora, Illinois
– A medical helicopter transporting a girl to Chicago Hospital
crashed on...
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David Blaine Puts His Life At Risk. Again.
United States illusionist and daredevil David Blaine has
started another endurance challenge,...
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8-Year-Old Hailed as Hero for Saving Mom’s Life
An 8-year-old boy from Dorchester
was hailed as hero on Tuesday after saving the life of his...
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ProHeart 6 Returns on the US Market
ProHeart 6, a drug that prevents dogs from getting a heartworm, has been approved by the Food and...
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Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well
Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to
ban use of anti-smoking drug Chantix...
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Health Officials on Alert after CMU Student Dies of Meningitis
Health officials are trying to identify all persons who were
in close contact with the 26-year-old...
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Paramedic Charged in Travolta Extortion Case
E! Online has reported earlier this month that a paramedic in the Bahamas was charged on Monday...
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Three Retained In Travolta Extortion Plot
Police in the Bahamas have arrested three people in connection with the alleged plot to extort...
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Private Memorial Service for Jett Travolta
John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, organized a private memorial service on Thursday in the...
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Small, Private Memorial Service for Jett Travolta
Hollywood is again in mourning, after John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, passed away on...
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Jett Travolta’s Death, Medically Unclear
The life and death of John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s son, Jett, is still a mystery for...
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Autopsy Completed on Jett Travolta
John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, died last week on Friday after he had suffered a...
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John Travolta Devastated by Son Jett’s Death
John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, both actors, said that they were heartbroken by the...
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston Devastated by Son Jett’s Mysterious Death
Authorities said that John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, passed away on Friday in the Bahamas...
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Autopsy On John Travolta's Son Planned For Monday
Two pathologists will perform an autopsy in the Bahamas for actor John Travolta's 16-year-old son,...
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John Travolta’s Son Died at 16
The authorities spread the saddest piece of news for the beginning of 2009. Jett Travolta, the...
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John Travolta's 16-year-old Son Dies After Violent Seizure
The eldest of actor John Travolta's children with wife Kelly Preston, Jett Travolta, died suddenly...
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Update: Hang In There, David Blaine!
Hanging upside down over New York’s
Central Park may offer a stunning view, but it’s
just not...
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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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