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FDA wants limits on antibiotics given to animals

By doris | Published: April 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics given to farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics are mixed with animal feed to help livestock, pigs and chickens put [...]

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US warns of cancer-agent in Japan weight loss pills

By doris | Published: April 4, 2012

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned consumers not to take a product called “Japan Rapid Weight Loss Diet Pills” because they contain a suspected cancer-causing agent. The pills, advertised as promoting weight loss, are distributed by a company called Xiushentang and sold on popular web sites including Amazon.com, said [...]

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Bugs in sterile drugs? Behind the shortage of critical meds

By doris | Published: April 1, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnb.msn.com In a move that highlights dilemmas plaguing the U.S. drug supply, federal regulators warned a major manufacturer about problems including bugs in vials of sterile drugs — insects, literally — the same day that health officials allowed the firm to ramp up scarce medications for kids with cancer. Food and Drug [...]

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Pharmacies investigated for price gouging of scarce drugs

By doris | Published: March 22, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are investigating three shadowy pharmacies in Maryland and North Carolina for diverting critical but scarce drugs from patients to wholesalers, who are then able to resell the medicine at sometimes big markups. Elijah Cummings, the senior Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, began a [...]

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Vets feel abandoned after secret drug experiments

By doris | Published: March 1, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The moment 18-year-old Army Pvt. Tim Josephs arrived at Edgewood Arsenal in 1968, he knew there was something different about the place. “It just did not look like a military base, more like a hospital,” recalled Josephs, a Pittsburgh native. Josephs had volunteered for a two-month assignment at Edgewood, [...]

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Diabetes, memory loss warnings added to statins

By doris | Published: February 29, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to indicate that they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss. The Food and Drug administration announced the changes to the safety information on the labels of statins such [...]

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Hospitals scramble to get scarce kids’ cancer drug

By doris | Published: February 18, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com An Ohio drugmaker began releasing limited supplies of a crucial medication to treat childhood leukemia Thursday, sending hospital pharmacists facing life-threatening shortages scrambling for their share. Jerrod Milton, chief of pharmacy at Children’s Hospital of Colorado, was among those first in line as Ben Venue Laboratories began accepting new orders for [...]

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‘Crisis’: Supplies of life-saving drug used to treat children could run out in 2 weeks

By doris | Published: February 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com How can a drug company run out of medicine because of quality concerns? They must have people checking everything that goes on in the company. Do you think it is like everything else it boils down to money. Cut back here cut back there and work the employees as much as [...]

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Mom forces teen to wear sign: ‘I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow the law’

By doris | Published: January 12, 2012

Full Story at thegrio.com FORT WAYNE, INDIANA – A frustrated mom has given her wayward teenage son the ultimate punishment: public humiliation. The 14-year-old was forced to stand on a busy street for two hours with a massive sign hanging around his neck, which read, “I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow [...]

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More illegal immigrants from India crossing border

By doris | Published: July 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only [...]

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Chantix smoking pill can raise heart risk, FDA warns

By doris | Published: June 16, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Pfizer’s stop-smoking drug Chantix can lead to a small increase in cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks for patients who already have cardiovascular disease, U.S. drug regulators said on Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration is changing the label for Chantix after reviewing the results of a clinical trial. [...]

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‘Walmart of Weed’ to open in Arizona, promote growing your own

By doris | Published: June 1, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — It’s called the “Walmart of Weed.” This newest big-box store is devoted to selling marijuana-growing equipment. Its biggest outlet yet is to open Wednesday in Phoenix, where Arizona voters approved medical cannabis last fall. The weGrow Store will be the first outside California, where medical weed has long been legalized. [...]

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FBI requests Unabomber’s DNA for Tylenol poisonings probe

By doris | Published: May 19, 2011

Full Story atContent.usatoday.com Update at 1:31 p.m. ET: The lawyer for Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, who is serving life in prison for sending a series of deadly mailbombs, says his client has been asked to provide a DNA sample as part of the FBI’s long-running investigation into the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people, USA [...]

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Johnson & Johnson settles U.S. bribery charges

By doris | Published: April 9, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged Johnson & Johnson with bribing doctors in several countries to prescribe its drugs and medical devices. The company has agreed to pay $70 million to settle the charges, without admitting or denying the allegations.

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FDA to supervise three Tylenol plants

By doris | Published: March 11, 2011

Full Story at UPI.com WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) — The U.S. government announced it is taking over three Tylenol plants following recalls and a criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories. The Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department took action against Tylenol maker McNeil PPC and two of its executives — its [...]

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Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms

By doris | Published: February 14, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com CONCORD, N.H. – Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet. The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals — one in San Francisco and one in Seattle — still offer it. But interest in [...]

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Spanish police seize ‘largest, most sophisticated’ cocaine lab

By doris | Published: January 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Madrid, Spain (CNN) — Police in Madrid seized what they called the “largest and most sophisticated cocaine laboratory” in Europe known to date, and arrested 25 people, Spain’s national police said in a statement on Tuesday. Anti-drug agents confiscated 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of cocaine ready for distribution, 2 million euros [...]

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Johnson & Johnson recalls 45 million more products

By doris | Published: January 14, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil division announced a recall of certain Tylenol brand products Friday after a review of cleaning procedures at a plant in Fort Washington, Pa. Conducted in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration, the recall covers certain lots of Tylenol 8 Hour, Tylenol Arthritis [...]

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Moms, dads of gang kids ordered to parenting class

By doris | Published: December 13, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES – It’s a Saturday morning and a half-dozen adults are sitting in a high school classroom, staring at grim photos of sickly drug addicts and hearing about the deadly consequences of gang crime. They’d rather not be here, but a judge made them come. The moms and dads were ordered [...]

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Authorities seize 105 tons of marijuana in northern Mexico

By doris | Published: October 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in the Mexican border city of Tijuana have seized 105 tons of marijuana, the largest bust in years, the state news agency reported Monday. Security forces encountered several vehicles suspected of carrying the drug early Monday morning, Notimex said.

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