The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling on drug makers of some popular painkillers to strengthen their warning labels after a review of new safety information. The warning labels on non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, known as NSAIDs, must be udpated to identify an increased risk of a heart attack or stroke.
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Connecticut teen forced to have chemo heads home
A 17-year-old teen who has been living at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center since December while being forced to have chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin’s lymphoma has completed treatment and left the hospital Monday, according to her attorney, Josh Michtom.
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Are human head transplants coming soon?
It sounds like the plot for a science fiction movie.Someone has a horrific accident and winds up in the hospital, brain dead and on life support. Doctors approach the family about organ donation, but instead of saving as many as eight lives, the family is asked to donate the whole body to save just one individual. Perhaps a quadriplegic with a mind that outmatches their malfunctioning body.
