Review panel criticizes Great Lakes health study 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday. | |
FDA posts list of potential problem drugs 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems, in an effort to better inform doctors and patients. | |
FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal ... | |
Report: US drug use shows little change in 2007 September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Cocaine and methamphetamine use among young adults declined significantly last year as supplies dried up, leading to higher prices and reduced purity, the government reports. Overall use of illicit drugs showed little ... | |
Study: Workers to pay more for health care September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Get ready for another hike in copays and deductibles. A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' ... | |
Study: No link between measles vaccine and autism September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- New research further debunks any link between measles vaccine and autism, work that comes as the nation is experiencing a surge in measles cases fueled by children left unvaccinated. | |
 Study: New way to spot breast cancer shows promise September 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
(AP) -- A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported ... | |
E. coli outbreak in Oklahoma kills 1, sickens 200 September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma has sickened more than 200 people and killed at least one person, state health officials said Tuesday. | |
Smoking riskier to women's hearts than men's September 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday. In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks nearly 14 years earlier than women who don't smoke, Norwegian doctors ... | |
Pfizer resuming ads for Lipitor after controversy September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Television ads for the world's top-selling drug, cholesterol fighter Lipitor, are back, six months after Pfizer Inc. pulled them amid charges its use of a celebrity doctor endorser who's never practiced medicine ... | |
Americans adopting HIV-positive kids from Ethiopia September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV. | |
 India rushes doctors, medicine to flood victims September 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Indian authorities rushed doctors and medical equipment to flood-devastated northern India on Monday to ward off outbreaks of disease among the hundreds of thousands of victims crowding relief camps, ... | |
Doctors say Vytorin-cancer link can't be ruled out September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Results from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with great caution until more is known, ... | |
Watch out for drug names that look, sound alike September 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine. | |
Whooping cough outbreak at Pittsburgh vets clinic September 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Medical officials in Pittsburgh say staff members and some patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital are getting preventive treatment for whooping cough after an outbreak was traced to several workers at an outpatient ... | |
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