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FDA gives highest warning about Guidant
Jul 1 2005 9:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A malfunction in some of the Guidant Corp. defibrillators recalled last month could cause serious injury or death, the government said Friday in classifying 20,000 of the devices as the most urgent type of recalls.
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FDA warns about antidepressants, suicide
Jul 1 2005 8:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration issued a second public warning Friday that adults who use antidepressants should be closely monitored for warning signs of suicide, especially when they first start the pills or change a dose.
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Bill would cover anti-anxiety medications
Jul 1 2005 8:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers said Friday they would seek to add to Medicare's prescription drug benefit a category of drugs commonly used to treat anxiety, insomnia and seizures.
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Government releases details on sick cow
Jul 1 2005 5:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Texas cow infected with mad cow disease was sold through a livestock market and taken to a slaughterhouse where it was dead on arrival, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
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FDA warns against supplement
Jul 1 2005 5:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is warning consumers not to take a Chinese dietary supplement that contains a diabetes drug that could cause life-threatening reactions in some people.
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Senator prods FDA to put warning on Viagra
Jul 1 2005 4:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials are taking too long to change Viagra's label to warn customers of a possible reaction that can cause blindness, a Republican senator says.
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Autopsy shows Parkinson's drug's progress
Jul 1 2005 2:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A drug withdrawn from clinical trials because of safety concerns was helping regrow nerve fibers in the brain of a man with Parkinson's disease, scientists report.
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U.N.: Asia must confront AIDS epidemic now
Jul 1 2005 10:19AM (CT)
KOBE, Japan (AP) - Asia risks having 12 million new HIV infections in the next five years but could halve that number if it acts fast enough to fight the virus among vulnerable groups such as drug users, sex workers and men who have sex with men, a UNAIDS report said Friday.
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