FDA seeks to cut deadly side effects NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE and ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – Chastened by repeated instances in which popular medicines proved deadly, federal health officials announced a major effort yesterday to use information on Medicare claims to assess the risks of...
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Stock index futures cut losses on Tuesday as reassuring quarterly results and an outlook from technology bellwether Hewlett-Packard , a Dow component, offset fears about the worsening global economic downturn.
A few weeks ago I was getting dozens of emails about President-elect Barack Obama's Change.gov website and its lack of any mention of the words 'gay' or 'lesbian'. That has now changed, and the site, which echoes Obama's...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded a researcher at The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy $1.7 million for a nearly five-year study of the long-term adverse effects of the street drug ecstasy, also known as...