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N.M. planning medical marijuana program
Aug 17 2007 11:14PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson ordered the state Health Department on Friday to resume planning of a medical marijuana program despite the agency's worries about possible federal prosecution.
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FDA: Codeine risk for some nursing moms
Aug 17 2007 10:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nursing mothers who take codeine should watch their infants for increased sleepiness or other signs of overdose, federal health officials warned Friday.
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Tiny N.J. baby ready to return home
Aug 17 2007 9:49PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - After almost four months of waiting, Tamera Dixon, who weighed less than a soda can when she was born on April 25, is ready to head home. Believed to be one of the smallest babies ever born in New Jersey, the Trenton preemie has spent most of her life in an incubator.
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Tiny N.J. baby ready to return home
Aug 17 2007 9:49PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - After almost four months of waiting, Tamera Dixon, who weighed less than a soda can when she was born on April 25, is ready to head home. Believed to be one of the smallest babies ever born in New Jersey, the Trenton preemie has spent most of her life in an incubator.
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Tiny N.J. baby ready to return home
Aug 17 2007 9:49PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - After almost four months of waiting, Tamera Dixon, who weighed less than a soda can when she was born on April 25, is ready to head home. Believed to be one of the smallest babies ever born in New Jersey, the Trenton preemie has spent most of her life in an incubator.
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Dutch company recalls Chinese mattresses
Aug 17 2007 6:22PM (CT)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A chain of Dutch bed stores said Friday it is recalling more than 1,300 Chinese-made foam mattresses amid fears they were sprayed with toxic insecticide.
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FDA won't close field labs after all
Aug 17 2007 5:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration canceled plans Friday to close more than half its field laboratories.
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Toys 'R' Us pulls bibs as a precaution
Aug 17 2007 5:25PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Toys "R" Us Inc. on Friday said it was removing all vinyl baby bibs from its Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us stores as a precaution after two bibs made in China for one supplier showed lead levels that exceeded Toys "R" Us standards.
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FDA takes caution on approving new drugs
Aug 17 2007 5:24PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Under growing scrutiny since the blockbuster painkiller Vioxx was pulled from the market, the Food and Drug Administration in recent months has rejected a slew of experimental drugs or delayed their approval and required more data.
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Indian schools asked to ban junk food
Aug 17 2007 7:01AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's children are getting increasingly overweight and unhealthy and the government is asking schools to ban junk food, officials said Thursday.
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Alaska begins offering e-prescriptions
Aug 17 2007 3:40AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Electronic drug prescriptions can be delivered to pharmacists in all 50 states for the first time this week as Alaska became the final state to join the technological bandwagon.
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