Health
FDA issues warning on Cipro, similar antibiotics (AP)
AP - Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government's most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon
Elderly may fare worse on prostate cancer drugs (AP)
AP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances ...
Medicare changes don't affect cancer care: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Legislation that cut fees doctors receive for giving chemotherapy to Medicare patients has not affected care so far, researchers reported on Tuesday. ...
Fringe autism treatment could get federal study (AP)
AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an ...
Cancer death rate drop tied to education levels (Reuters)
Reuters - Declines in death rates from the four leading types of cancer in the United States since the early 1990s have been driven largely ...
Drinking Excessive Amounts of Ice Water Kills Man
A 44-year-old man died after drinking 9.6 liters of water in eight hours, the equivalent of four-and- a-half soda bottles, Londons Daily Mail reported Tuesday. ...
Cluster or Coincidence? Teens Share Same Cancer
Four Pocono Mountain-area teenagers have been diagnosed with osteosarcoma since 2006 and their families want to know if the cancers are a result of ...
14 Preemies Given Blood Thinner Overdose
Fourteen babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of Christus Spohn Hospital South were given overdoses of the pediatric version of the blood thinner Heparin, ...
FDA Calls for 'Urgent' Warning on Cipro, Other Antibiotics
Drug safety officials Tuesday imposed the government's most urgent safety warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, saying they may cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury ...
Man Allergic to Seafood Dies After Eating Crab Dish
An autopsy Monday confirmed that 35-year-old Rodney Hawkins went into anaphylactic shock and died after eating the dish at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Lovejoy ...
