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| Teenagers Say It’s Easier to Take Prescription Drugs Than Beer |
The National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University made a study on 1,002 children aged between 12 and 17 years old. Many of them said they find it easier to obtain prescription drugs illegally than to buy beer, cigarettes of marijuana.
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 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to add firm
warnings about suicidal behavior on the labels of 11 epilepsy medications, as
indicated by files posted on the organization’s Web site.
The FDA will require companies to bring the drugs’ labels up
to date, in order to include black-box warnings, the most severe warnings...
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In line with new advisory by the American
Academy of Pediatrics,
kids as young as 8 will need to take drugs in order to prevent high cholesterol
and heart disease in adults. The innovative new guidelines inform
parents and pediatricians on how to protect high-risk kids for signs which they
have already started to develop...
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 On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics came forward with some rather surprising guidance. For the first time ever, the Academy advised people to give eight-year-olds cholesterol-fighting drugs in order to prevent future heart conditions.According to Dr. Stephen Daniels, member of the academy's nutrition committee, the new advice...
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 A new vaccine for rotavirus, which causes
diarrhea and vomiting in children, was licensed by the Food and Drug
Administration in April. The vaccine advisory committee agreed that the second
vaccine should be added to the list of recommended vaccines for infants.
The two-dose vaccine made by
GlaxoSmithKline and the three-dose...
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 An experimental skin patch developed by US
biotechnology company Iomai Corp. protected more than 70 percent of visitors to
Mexico and Guatemala from traveler’s diarrhoea,
an illness that sickens millions each year.
People who travel to endemic areas often
suffer from diarrhoea due to E-coli
bacterium that is toxic to the...
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 A New York man died after he ate an illegal aphrodisiac derived from toad venom.According to the Associated Press, New York City’s poison control center issued a warning to people to stay away from the concoction after receiving a hospital report that a 35-year-old man who ingested the hard, brown substance died earlier this month. The...
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 Pilots or air traffic controllers will no longer be allowed
to use the anti-smoking drug Chantix. This appeal of the Federal Aviation
Administration is argued by the side-effects of the drug, which have been
discovered and announced in the last months. These negative influences on the
human body may be a threat to the safe operation...
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 GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe's
largest drugmaker, gained European Union approval for its pre-pandemic flu
vaccine, Prepandrix. This vaccine is meant to prevent the deadly H5N1 virus.
Prepandrix should be administrated before or in the early
stages of a flu pandemic. It determines an immune response to the H5N1 strain
of bird...
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 The Food and Drug Administration warned Friday about two drugs approved for use by organ transplant patients to prevent organ transplant injection. CellCept by Roche and Myfortic by Novartis can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.It is also common practise to use these drugs “off-label” to treat other immune...
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A study showed that Trasylol, a heart-surgery drug produced
by Bayer AG, raises the risk of death compared to two other competing
medications. As a consequence, the company withdrew its remaining supplies of
the drug from the U.S. market, as Reuters informs.
The statement followed publication earlier on Wednesday of a
Canadian...
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 West Wing creator to make Facebook movie
The creator of hit political TV series Aaron Sorkin is to write a movie about the world's most popular social networking site, Facebook, he announced Thursday in a...
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 Mass Murder in Memphis Home, 6 Killed
The bodies of six people - 4 adults and 2 children - were found by police in a small brick house in Memphis, Tennessee. Inside the small building were found three other...
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