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Medicare to pay for $93,000 prostate cancer drug
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare officials say they will likely pay for a prostate cancer drug that extends life about four months at a price of $93,000 per patient. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid says the biotech drug met its criteria as a...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Medicare, Washington, DC, Prostate Cancer, Health
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Ohio mom who gave pot to 2-year-old gets probation
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio woman who admitted giving her 2-year-old daughter marijuana and using her cell phone to record the child smoking it has avoided prison. A Hamilton County judge on Friday placed 21-year-old Jessica Gamble, of suburban...Tags: Cincinnati (Hamilton, Ohio), Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Health, Prisons
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FDA panel backs Alzheimer's imaging drug
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal panel of medical specialists says a first-of-a-kind imaging chemical designed to help screen for Alzheimer's disease could be beneficial, provided doctors receiving training in interpreting the brain scans. The Food and...Tags: Politics, Diseases and Illnesses, Elections, Brain, Alzheimer's Disease
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$100K in drugs found on cruise ship docked in Md.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Drug-sniffing dogs found nearly $100,000 worth of cocaine and heroin aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in a federal investigation of an employee smuggling ring. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the search on Saturday...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Travel, Royal Caribbean International, Tourism and Leisure, Employees
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FDA warns of liver damage reports with Sanofi drug
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are warning doctors and patients that a recently-launched heart drug from Sanofi-Aventis SA has been linked to liver damage in a handful of patients. The Food and Drug Administration said it has...Tags: Dronedarone (drug), Cardiac Arrhythmia, Washington, DC, Food and Drug Administration, Sanofi-Aventis
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Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism risk
CHICAGO (AP) — Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. Children born less than two years after their siblings were...Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Behavioral Conditions, Physical Conditions, Family, Columbia University
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Wisconsin woman finds $280K of drugs in vacuum
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Green Bay, Wis., woman opened a Christmas present from her children to find a refurbished vacuum - and a load of drugs. Authorities say the woman found 2 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and 2.2 pounds of cocaine shrink...Tags: Health, Green Bay (Brown, Wisconsin), Wisconsin
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Journal: Study linking vaccine to autism was fraud
LONDON (AP) — A new report finds that the first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved. The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues had already been widely...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Diseases and Illnesses, Vaccines, Behavioral Conditions, Corporate Crime
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Cheaper version of preterm birth drug can be made
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. officials say they won't stop special pharmacies from making a cheaper version of a new expensive drug that prevents preterm labor. The Food and Drug Administration's unusual statement concerns the recently approved Makena...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Health
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Flu expert: Vaccine sourcing key in pandemic
GENEVA (AP) — An American expert tasked with reviewing the World Health Organization's response to the swine flu outbreak says a more efficient way of sourcing vaccines is needed to prepare for future pandemics. Dr. Harvey Fineberg says rich...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Chemical Industry, Swine Flu, Epidemics and Plagues, Politics
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FDA clears first melanoma drug to extend survival
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved a new cancer drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb that is the first therapy to prolong the lives of patients with melanoma. It's the first new drug the Food and Drug Administration has approved to...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Chemical Industry, Immune System, Washington, DC, Cancer
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Crown Point: Meth ring's leader sentenced to 22 years in prison
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Crown Point man to 22 years in prison for leading a ring that manufactured and distributed methamphetamine from northwest Indiana to Colorado. Thirty-three-year-old Richard "Tricky" Kasper was...Tags: Colorado, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Indiana, Hammond
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