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Health & Wellness News tagged with strokes

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
- 84 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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Is NuvaRing Dangerous?
Health & Wellness  (tags: Birth Control, contraception, NuvaRing, risks, strokes, blood clots, thrombosis, research, safety, medicine, warning, death, women )

Judy
- 206 days ago - motherjones.com
Easier birth control is desirable, but safety concerns exist with "3rd generation" hormones. They have been tested as pills, not in delivery directly into the bloodstream as in NuvaRing. Since approval serious adverse events like blood clots and fataliti
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Young Adult Stroke Patients May Be Misdiagnosed In ER
Health & Wellness  (tags: ethics, exercise, family, food, health, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, research, strokes )

Kit
- 279 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Four males and four females (14 percent), average age 34, were misdiagnosed as having vertigo, migraine, alcohol intoxication or other conditions. They were discharged from the hospital and later discovered to have suffered a stroke.
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'Silent' Artery Disease on the Rise
Health & Wellness  (tags: artery disease, women, heart attacks, strokes, ederly )

Eduardo
- 751 days ago - webmd.com
A silent type of artery disease that raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes is on the rise in American women. Asymptomatic, or symptomless, peripheral artery disease (PAD) rates among women aged 40 and older rose from 4.1% to 6.3% in 4 years.
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No Evidence That Antioxidants Really Work: Study
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, antioxidants, study, heart-disease, strokes )

Pretty
- 833 days ago - earthtimes.org
So far people have been told that taking antioxidants such as those found in fruits, nuts and vegetables reduces the chances of strokes, heart attacks or heart-disease related death in women vulnerable to them. Now they're being told differently.
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