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Illicit versions of the painkiller fentanyl were linked to more than 1,000 deaths in this country between 2005 and 2007, the Centers for Disease Contr...
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In a startling warning on cellphone safety, the head of a cancer research center in Pittsburgh told faculty and staff to curb their use of mobile phon...
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They way Medicare pays doctors encourages excessive testing and discourages spending time with patients, a doctor argues today on the New York Times o...
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Victor McKusick, a cardiologist who helped to invent the field of medical genetics just four years after the structure of DNA was discovered, died Tue...
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The study of Nexavar for liver cancer that was the talk of last year s ASCO conference gets its closeup this week, with publication of the full resu...
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Is another health-related veto fight brewing in Washington? The Bush administration would strongly oppose a bill that would give the FDA the pow...
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Times are tough and some of Benjamin Brewer s patients are choosing to skip medical care to pay for things like $4-a-gallon gas, he writes in his Do...
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For both men and women, sexual problems are a common side effect of antidepressants for both men and women. Viagra and similar drugs have long been pr...
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Another day, another health-care audit in Washington.This time it s the Indian Health Service, which provides medical services to about 1.9 million ...
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Fortunes in Big Pharma sometimes turn on a dime.Last year, Merck was the darling of the industry, as sales of some new products grew at a healthy clip...
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