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FDA Panel Says Wrinkle Fillers Should Carry Stronger Warnings
Labels of popular cosmetic wrinkle fillers should carry
stronger warnings about potential side...
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Beauty Has Its Price: Wrinkle Fillers Tied to Serious Side Effects
It appears that beauty has its price if considering the
latest news for the Food and Drug...
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FDA Issues Alert over Chinese Imports
The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued an alert warning Americans not to consume...
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Merck’s Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts in Males As Well
Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil was found to be effective in
men as well, this time preventing...
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Intel Releases Its First Home Medical Device
Intel has initiated pilot programs to examine a home health laptop, application, and database...
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Covidien Recalls Mislabeled Syringes That May Cause Hypoglycemia
Covidien Ltd. has recalled thousands of mislabeled syringes that could cause people with diabetes...
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Lung Cancer Treatment Drug Tarceva Makes the Disease Possible To Treat
The drug Tarceva, made by OSI Pharmaceuticals has been found to cause an increase in survival rates...
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Covidien Syringes Recalled
After a series of drugs were recalled by pharmaceutical companies for dangerous side effects, it...
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Testosterone Patch Might Improve Sexual Desire In Women
There is a known fact that there aren’t any specific treatments for postmenstrual women to regain...
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Insulin Syringes Recalled over Mislabeling and Overdose Risk
The US Food and Drug Administration is alerting doctors and
patients that Tyco Healthcare Group...
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Tainted Blood Thinner Seized by US Marshals in Ohio
The scandal around tainted heparin is again in the
spotlight, as federal officials said...
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Pfizer Halts Phase III Trial On Obesity Drug Over US Rejection Fears
Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drugmaker, on Wednesday
said it abandoned an obesity drug known...
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Lack Of Sexual Desire In Older Women Answered: The Testosterone Patch
Lack of sexual desire among women is not something new. Just
last week, a study by...
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CDC: Human Wart Virus HPV Caused 25,000 Cases of Cancer Annually
At least 25,000 cases of cancers associated
with human papillomavirus (HPV) occurred annually in...
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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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Update: FDA Needs To Reconsider Its Tolerance Regarding BPA
The FDA was urged by a scientific panel to rethink a recent conclusion that a chemical used in baby...
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Supreme Court To Decide On Drug Lawsuits
Unquestionably, there are thousands of suspended cases across the United States that hang on the...
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FDA Findings On BPA Are Misleading, Experts Claim
An FDA advisory board voted unanimously Friday to say that the agency disregarded significant...
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FDA Approves Toviaz to Treat Patients with Overactive Bladders
The FDA has approved a new drug, Toviaz, to treat patients with overactive bladders, a disorder...
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New Drug to Deal with Overactive Bladder
Patients who suffer from overactive bladder can now hope for better as the FDA approved a new...
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FDA Findings on BPA Safety Questioned Again by a Panel of Toxicologists
A panel of toxicology experts has urged the FDA to rethink its conclusions on bisphenol A, a...
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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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FDA’s Preemption Policy, Fought Against From Within
The FDA decided to protect drug-makers from state-court
liability suits by offering drugs their...
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Panel Questions FDA’s Report on BPA Safety
This week, a
scientific panel issued a report that questioned the Food and Drug
Administration’s...
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FDA and Scientist Argue over BPA Risk, Consumers Left in Confusion
Health officials are currently trying to establish whether bisphenol A (BPA) is a threat or a...
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FDA Issues Warning over Aspirin to Bayer
Tuesday,
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Bayer that two of their aspirin
medicines...
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Old Blood Is Highly Dangerous
Researchers at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., found that hospitalized patients given...
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Experts Say the FDA Didn't Properly Assess BPA Health Risks
Concerns regarding chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, just won’t come to an end. BPA is an organic...
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Update: Bayer Warned over Aspirin Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent
a warning letter to Bayer Health Care saying the...
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The FDA Opens Office In Beijing
The FDA opened its first foreign office in Beijing, after a flux of contaminated products reached...
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Gardasil Might Get Clearance For Preventing Genital Warts In Boys
Gardasil can also be given to men as a way to prevent genital warts, a study presented Thursday at...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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Research Shows MP3 Player Headphones May Disrupt Pacemakers
A study publicized by U.S. researchers at an American Heart
Association meeting in New Orleans...
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The FDA Seizes Contaminated Heparin
The FDA took a pretty rare step on Thursday, seizing contaminated heparin from the drug...
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Drug Company Wyeth Sued By Vermont Musician
Drug company Wyeth has been sued by a Vermont musician after an injection with an anti-nausea drug...
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Update: Top Court Hears Arguments in Wyeth & Levine Case
Patients and drug companies are still waiting
for a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Levine’s...
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New Drug for Overactive Bladder Approved: Toviaz
Overactive bladder patients can now find relieve in Toviaz,
a drug made by Germany’s
Schwarz...
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Avandia Risks Ban over Liver Toxicity
GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s diabetes drug faces harsh criticism as
the Washington, D.C.-based group...
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Panel Slashes FDA over Bisphenol Safety
A panel of environmental health, toxicology and statistics
experts from three major universities,...
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Toviaz Gets FDA Clearance For Overactive Bladder
US regulators on Friday approved Toviaz (fesoterodine fumarate) for patients suffering from...
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Update: Report Seriously Questions FDA Ruling On BPA Safety
An expert panel asked by the Food and Drug Administration to
review its way of handling of the...
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Anti-Obesity Drug Acomplia Gets Suspended in Europe
The European Medicines Agency wants Sanofi-Aventis SA’s anti-obesity drug Acomplia out of the...
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CDC: Food Allergies Up 18 Percent among US Kids
Food allergies continue to be on the rise among US kids according to a report released...
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Three States Urge Companies to Stop Using BPA in Baby Bottles
On Friday, attorneys
general from Connecticut, New
Jersey and Delaware
sent letters to a...
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Gardasil Vaccination Rate Tops 25 Percent despite Initial Doubts
More girls in the United States are vaccinated with
Gardasil, the vaccine designed to prevent...
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25% Of U.S. Teen Girls Received Protection Against Cervical Cancer
An estimated 25 percent of American teenage girls received
at least one dose of the Gardasil...
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AstraZeneca’s Seroquel XR Gets FDA Clearance for Bipolar Disorder
SEROQUEL XL, AstraZeneca Plc’s schizophrenia drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
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FDA Approval For Once-Daily Treatment For Bipolar Mania, Depression
AstraZeneca Plc said today that SEROQUEL XR, the
antipsychotic medication that is used to treat...
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Cough, Cold Meds to Have New Labels Banning Use in Kids under 4
No kid under the age of four should be given the
controversial cough and cold medicines! At least...
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FDA Expected to Make a Decision on Kids’ Cough Meds
The American
Academy of Pediatrics is
urging the Food and Drug Administration to demand...
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Supreme Court Ready For Drugs, Cigarettes and Bad Language Review
The U.S. Supreme Court enters its third term on Monday,
October 6, and the calendar has a series...
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FDA to Write More Severe Rules for Children’s Cough Medicine
The FDA was petitioned by pediatric experts and consumer groups on Thursday to pull off the market,...
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FDA Postpones Decision To Ban Kid’s Cough Medicine
The US Food and Drug Administration needs more data on whether over-the-counter
cold medicines are...
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Another Cure for Cancer Approved by FDA
Eli Lilly and Co. announced on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of...
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Two Rival Biotech Companies Receive Approval to Develop Anthrax Vaccines
Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and
PharmAthene of Annapolis received separate federal...
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Eprex Under Close Scrutiny After German Trial Study
A Johnson & Johnson anemia drug tested in Germany on a panel of stroke patients is...
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FDA Probes J&J Anemia Drug over Clinical Trial Deaths
Results of a study undergone by German scientists revealed
that stroke patients given Amgen and...
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Energy Drinks? You’d Better Avoid Them, Study Says
Have you wondered how many people consume energy drinks on a daily basis, or even more often? Or...
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FDA Lacks Staffers, Report Shows
While repeated outbreaks of food poisoning persist in the United States, the Food and Drug...
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