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FDA warns pregnant migraine sufferers against anti-seizure drugs
The Food and Drug Administration is warning physicians that women who suffer migraine headaches and are pregnant or may become pregnant should not use the drugs valproate or valproic acid to prevent the severe headaches, in light of new evidence showing...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Migraine, Pharmaceuticals, Birth Defects, Behavioral Conditions
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Police collect unwanted prescription pills
As part of the national prescription drug take-back day, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach police collected more than 300 pounds of unwanted drugs, officials said Monday. On Saturday, 35 people turned over 129 pounds of prescription drugs to the Costa Mesa...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Drug Trafficking
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Mayor of West, Texas: The face of a ravaged town
WEST, Texas — The two-tone brown Ford F-150 careens into the downtown parking space and out jumps Tommy Muska, a mayor on the move. Wearing a baseball cap, green long-sleeved shirt and bluejeans, his face ruddy from a life under the central Texas...Tags: Barack Obama, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Photography and Video, Thomas Menino, Insurance
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Everyone on Earth is related to everyone else, DNA shows
The history of Europe is written in its people's DNA. The Huns and the Slavs made incursions into Eastern Europe about 1,500 years ago. Migrants moved from Ireland to England in recent centuries. Populations in Italy and Spain have been comparatively...
Tags: Italy, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Genetics, University of Chicago
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Fighting emerald ash borer
Q: We have a beautiful, full ash tree on the berm in back of our house, which at this point is free from the emerald ash borer. Last summer it was fully leafed out, and we have checked the bark for tell-tale signs of the borer such as small D-shaped...Tags: Michigan Avenue, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Botanic Garden, Botany, Inorganic Chemical Industry
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Volusia woman with mental problems vanishes without medication
A 29-year-old Volusia County woman with drug problems has been missing for more than a week and she doesn't have the medications she needs to take for multiple mental problems, authorities said today. Sarita Singhal of Edgewater has been missing since...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Culture, Behavioral Conditions, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder
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Link sought between 8-year-old's slaying, Placerville kidnapping
Authorities are looking into whether the attempted kidnapping of a Placerville toddler is connected to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old girl in a small town 45 miles away. Placerville police Capt. Mike Scott said there were "some similarities"...Tags: Kidnapping, Google+, Shootings, Murder, FBI
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CF Industries 1Q profit rises 10%
Fertilizer producer CF Industries on Wednesday reported that net earnings climbed to a record-high $406.5 million, or $6.47 per share, for the first quarter, from $368.4 million, or $5.54 per share, a year ago. Excluding one-time items, among them a $22....
Tags: Fertilizer, Natural Gas, Energy Resources, Petroleum Industry, Sports
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Genomes provide clues for treating leukemia, endometrial cancers
Efforts to sequence the human genome have revealed genetic risk for disease, and taught us about our early ancestors. Now, efforts to sequence the genomes of cancer cells -- to pinpoint the changes that occur in cancer cells' DNA when a person has the...
Tags: St. Louis, Harvard Medical School, National Institutes of Health, Drugs and Medicines, Endometrial cancer
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Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?
About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...
Tags: Internal Medicine, Heart Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Internists, Cardiologists
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Use of alertness drug modafinil takes off, spurred by untested uses
In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial names -- Provigil and Nuvigil -- or by its plain-Jane...
Tags: Sleep Disorders, Lorazepam (drug), Drugs and Medicines, Internists, General Practitioners
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After hospital care, the test begins
In 2011, my husband, Eric, a trial attorney, was felled by a brain stem stroke just before he was to board a flight at O'Hare in Chicago. He was just 53 years old with no prior health conditions or problems. From the outset, we knew his recovery and...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Nursing
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