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Health & Wellness News tagged with risk

Drug Giant Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Fine
Health & Wellness  (tags: Pfizer, Pharmaceutical, criminal, Justice Department, Bextra, FDA, risk, heart attacks, strokes, Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, anti-psychotic drug Geodon, antibiotic Zyvox, anti-epilepsy drug Lyrica, defraud or mislead, kickbacks to health-care providers )

Rosemary
- 78 days ago - cnn.com
By Carol Cratty CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to pay a record $2.3 billion settlement to resolve criminal and civil liability for illegally promoting certain pharmaceuticals, the Justice Department announced...
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'Accidental' Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible
Health & Wellness  (tags: vaccine, vaccination, risk, avian, flu virus )

Alf
- 247 days ago - congresscheck.com
Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.
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Stop the Spray of the Bay Area - Petition-Action Site
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, research, prevention, safety, science, disease, risk, study, environment, abuse, risks, humans, health )

Roseann
- 635 days ago - stopthespray.org
Thousands of California residents are being sprayed with potentially harmful and partially undisclosed chemicals. Sign the petition to demand the stop of untested aerial spraying.
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Solariums Almost Double Cancer Risk - Australia
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, solariums, melanoma, skin cancer, cancer, risk )

Chrissy
- 676 days ago - news.com.au
PEOPLE under the age of 35 raise the risk of forming a dangerous melanoma skin cancer by an 98 per cent if they use solariums, a new study has revealed. The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency study also found an individual's chance
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Understanding Role Of Stress In Just About Everything
Health & Wellness  (tags: stress, risk, danger, health, illness, cancer, cold, disease )

Cissy
- 679 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Stress, to put it bluntly, is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A study now reveals that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common cold to cancer.
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FDA Approves First Parkinson's Patch
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, drugs, interesting, risk, treatment, parkinsons disease, patch, german, pharmacuticals )

Dana
- 694 days ago - foxnews.com
According to the Parkinson's Action Network, more than one million Americans have Parkinson's disease and 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, The patch, called Neupro, is made by German drug firm Schwarz Pharma
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Medical Gift Cards Bring Well Wishes
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, gift card, treatment, risk )


- 698 days ago - cbsnews.com
Consumer Advocate Praises Debit Card-Like Vehicle, With Some Cautions
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Forced Vaccinations = Crimes Against Children
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicine, research, vaccine, alert, risk, rights )

Kristen
- 707 days ago - newstarget.com
Mike Adams has again researched this outrageous assault on parental rights to choose appropriate health vaccinations or to choose to go without, and the state's imposition to require vaccination regardless of that choice.
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Weight Gain After Breast Cancer Deadly
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, weight gain, breast cancer, death, risk )

Eduardo
- 712 days ago - webmd.com
Weight gain after a diagnosis of invasive breast cancer can be deadly. For every 11 pounds gained, the risk of dying from breast cancer increases by 14%
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Helping Children in Crisis: How Can We Help African Children Orphaned By AIDS?
Health & Wellness  (tags: Africa, AIDS, children, risk, safety, society, orphans, 1million, Body-Mind-Spirit, South Africa )

Gregory
- 720 days ago - csmonitor.com
VIDEO: The Monitor starts an occasional series profiling two South African couples who opened their hearts and stretched their resources to give AIDS orphans a family. The Monamodis, who had two children already, found space
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Stonewalled at Fort Bragg
Health & Wellness  (tags: U.S.soldiers, stoned, illegaldrugs, Fayetteville, drugs, depression, risk )

Gregory
- 720 days ago - abcnews.go.com
VIDEO: Growing numbers of Fort Bragg soldiers are buying illegal drugs, often from crime-ridden neighborhoods located minutes off post, according to soldiers and security guards familiar with the drug scene.
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FYI: 10 Things Your Primary-Care Physician Won't Tell You
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, risks, safety, risk, treatment, warning )

Kemsa
- 721 days ago - smartmoney.com
A good primary-care doctor -- someone to coordinate your health care, help choose your specialists and be the first to diagnose just about any problem -- is the key to good medical treatment. But they're getting harder to come by. According to a 2007 study.
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Stronger Warnings Urged on Asthma Drugs
Health & Wellness  (tags: asthma, drugs, Serevent, Advair, children, risk, death )

Eduardo
- 722 days ago - webmd.com
Serevent and Advair, already carry "black box" warnings that the active ingredient salmeterol may increase the risk of asthma-related death. Doctors and patients should be alerted that the drugs could increase risks of dangerous side effects in children.
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Vaccines Threaten Up to 44,000 U.S. Soldiers
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, freedoms, healthcare, alert, drugs, disease, government, healthcare, health, illness, prevention, protection, risks, risk, safety, science, society, study, toxins )

Jennifer
- 724 days ago - articles.mercola.com
A U.S. soldier in Iraq, Pfc. Leif Hamre, 22, may face dismissal for refusing the anthrax vaccine.
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AquaDots Toy Recalled for Containing Date Rape Drug
Health & Wellness  (tags: kids, toys, alert, children, babies, drugs, health, illness, prevention, protection, risk, risks, safety, toxins )

Jennifer
- 724 days ago - newstarget.com
US safety officials have recalled about 4.2 million Chinese-made Aqua Dots bead toys that contain a chemical that has caused some children to vomit and become comatose after swallowing them.
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