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FDA Takes Action on Darvon, Other Pain Medications Containing Propoxyphene
FDA notified healthcare professionals that it is taking several actions to reduce the risk of overdose in patients using pain medications that contain propoxyphene because of data linking propoxyphene and fatal overdoses.
The agency will require manufacturers of propoxyphene-containing products to strengthen the label, including the boxed [...]

First look at new children’s medical center
A new children’s medical center is about to open its doors in the East Valley and 3TV’s Javier Soto gives us our first look inside.

What Success Does for the Brain
MIT researchers show that the brain appears to react more to success, supporting previous evidence that we learn more from a positive outcome than from a failure.

Could a Cuban Cancer Drug Improve US-Cuba Relations?
The U.S. is conducting clinical trials on a cancer drug developed in Cuba, but unless embargo laws are altered, the drug won’t be available for sale in the U.S. Groundbreaking Clinical Trials For the first time in 50 years, the U.S. is performing clinical trials for a Cuban-made [...]

British doctors complain of ‘tick-box approach’ to care of terminally ill patients
A group of senior British doctors expressed concern Thursday about the treatment of the terminally ill, saying some people are dying prematurely because of guidelines for dealing with patients in their final hours.

Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma of Japan acquiring US drug maker Sepracor for $2.6 billion
Japanese drug company Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. is acquiring U.S. drug maker Sepracor Inc.

Chinese focus on 1 shot for H1N1 flu
The answer may be near to a crucial question about vaccine for the swine flu – one shot or two? Chinese officials say they are about to approve vaccines that prevent the new flu in a single dose.

Statin cuts heart problems after artery surgery
Score another victory for the cheap, cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs known as statins.

Continue reading "New Orleans doctor sentenced to prison for work at ‘pill mills’"
An 82-year-old New Orleans doctor is headed to federal prison for writing painkiller prescriptions for cash at the request of patients who often traveled from out of state and paid up front before seeing him at a clinic the U.S. Attorney’s Office has [...]

Bay Bridge closes, deal with it
The Bay Bridge closes at eight o’clock tonight, as you’ve surely learned from hysterical news coverage , or the saner coverage of all the work that needs to be done on the bridge.