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- Heat Alert
Source: HealthDay - 
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- Calcium Supplements Linked to Boost in Heart Attack Risk
People should get needed mineral through their diet, researchers say
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Calcium, Heart Attack
- Protein in Urine Can Forecast Kidney Disease
Doctors may be able to watch for kidney injury and protect patients by looking for protein in urine, researchers reported on Thursday.
Source: Reuters Health
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Kidney Diseases, Laboratory Tests, Urine and Urination
- Doctors, Patients Rarely on Same Page
Physicians often mistaken about patients' beliefs, feelings about their illness
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Page: Talking With Your Doctor
- Meth Use in Pregnancy Endangers Mom and Baby
New research shows that babies born to methamphetamine-using moms face much higher risks of serious complications, compared to babies not exposed in the womb to this illegal street drug.
Source: Reuters Health
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Methamphetamine, Pregnancy and Substance Abuse
- FDA Approves Drug for Chronic Drooling in Children
Source: Food and Drug Administration
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Developmental Disabilities, Neurologic Diseases, Neuromuscular Disorders
- FDA Advisory: Avoid Unintentional Exposure of Children and Pets to Evamist
Source: Food and Drug Administration
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- NIH-Funded Researchers Make Progress Toward Regenerating Tissue to Replace Joints
Source: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering - 
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Hip Replacement, Joint Disorders, Knee Replacement, Osteoarthritis
- Breast Cancer's DNA Yields More Secrets
Another study shows that not all tumors are alike, pointing to better treatments
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Breast Cancer, Genetic Testing
- Story-Telling More Difficult for Brain-Injured Children
Parents can help by spending more time developing narratives, researchers suggest
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Child Development, Stroke
FDA: What's New Drugs - Ask our Clinical Pharmacists
- Newly Added Guidance Documents
- New and Generic Drug Approvals
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- FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing safety review of Evamist (estradiol transdermal spray) and unintended exposure of children and pets to topical estrogen
[07-29-2010] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing reports of adverse effects from Evamist in children who may have been unintentionally exposed to the drug through skin contact with women using this product.
- FDA Drug Safety Communication: Eosinophilic pneumonia associated with the use of Cubicin (daptomycin)
[07-29-2010] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing patients and healthcare professionals about the potential for developing eosinophilic pneumonia during treatment with Cubicin (daptomycin), an intravenous antibacterial drug.
- FDA Drug Info Rounds
A new series of training videos for practicing clinical and community pharmacists
- Current Drug Shortages
New/Updated Drug Shortages: Vecuronium Injection (updated) 7/29/2010, Mitomycin for injection (updated) 7/29/2010, Mexiletine Capsules (150mg, 200mg, and 250mg)(updated) 7/29/2010, Leucovorin Calcium Lyophilized Powder for Injection (updated) 7/29/2010, Furosemide Injection 10mg/ml (updated) 7/29/2010, Naloxone Injection (updated) 7/29/2010, Pancuronium Injection (updated) 7/29/2010, NeoProfen (ibuprofen lysine) Injection 7/27/2010, Technetium Tc99m Generators (updated) 7/23/2010, Naloxone Injection (updated) 7/20/2010, Calcium Chloride Injection (updated) 7/20/2010, Pancuronium Injection (updated) 7/16/2010, Naloxone Injection (updated) 7/16/2010, Fosphenytoin Sodium Injection (updated) 7/16/2010, Ephedrine Injection (updated) 7/16/2010, Epinephrine 0.1 mg/mL Emergency Syringes 10 mL LifeShield Abboject syringe with 1.5 inch, 21-gauge needle (NDC 00409-4921-34) (updated) 7/16/2010, Levorphanol 2mg Tablets (updated) 7/14/2010, DDAVP Nasal Solution 0.01% Rhinal Tube 7/14/2010, Haloperidol Decanoate Injection (updated) 7/14/2010, Mexiletine Capsules (150mg, 200mg, and 250mg)(updated) 7/14/2010, Mitomycin for injection (updated) 7/14/2010, Dextrose 50% injection (updated) 7/13/2010, Amikacin injection 7/9/2010, Pancuronium Injection (updated) 7/8/2010, Leucovorin Calcium Lyophilized Powder for Injection (updated) 7/8/2010, Atracurium injection (updated) 7/8/2010, Technetium Tc99m Generators (updated) 7/8/2010, Mexiletine Capsules (150mg, 200mg, and 250mg)(updated) 7/8/2010, Furosemide Injection 10mg/ml (updated) 7/8/2010, Acyclovir Tablets and Capsules 7/1/2010, Levoleucovorin (Fusilev) 50 mg single use vials 6/30/2010
- Drugs@FDA Data Files
Data files updated through July 28, 2010.
- Breakdown of FDAAA Completed Pediatric Studies
(updated)
- Warning Letters 2010
Letters added
- National Drug Code Directory
The National Drug Code has been updated with data through June 30, 2010.
FDA: Consumer Health Information - Any Medicine Questions?
- Keep Kids, Pets Away From Skin Sprayed With Evamist
FDA advises that children and pets be kept from making contact with skin where Evamist has been applied.
- Combating Misuse and Abuse of Prescription Drugs: Q&A with Michael Klein, Ph.D.
The director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Controlled Substance Staff talks about the causes and prevalence of misuse and abuse of prescription drugs, and what government agencies such as FDA are doing to prevent it.
- FDA Cautions Against Using Unapproved IUDs
FDA says U.S. women who unknowingly had unapproved IUDs inserted could end up with an unplanned pregnancy.
- Stolen Inhalers Pose Risk
As seasonal allergies have some asthma sufferers reaching for inhalers, FDA issues warning on stolen medicine.
- Using Malaria Medication for Leg Cramps is Risky
Life-threatening side effects have been reported with the use of a malaria drug to treat leg cramps.
- July 13 Webinar—FDA’s Safety Monitoring of Approved Vaccines
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, FDA will host an online session and invite questions from the public on the agency’s role in vaccine safety.
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: June 2010
FDA warns about potentially dangerous products sold online including an instant coffee and a phony flu treatment. Other alerts include an overdose risk with vitamin D supplements for infants, a recall of some Benadryl and Tylenol products, and new recommendations for using inhaled asthma drugs safely.
- Bottled Water Everywhere: Keeping it Safe
Consumers drink billions of gallons of bottled water each year. Find out about FDA's role in ensuring that bottled water products are safe.
- Magic Power Coffee: Potentially Dangerous—Not Magical
Magic Power Coffee, an instant coffee marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, can cause dangerously low blood pressure.
- FDA Sounds Alarm on Phony Tamiflu
As consumers look ahead to the fall flu season, the FDA issued a warning that unapproved Tamiflu being sold by illegal, Internet drugstores is a hot commodity—and a significant health risk.
FDA: MedWatch Safety Alerts (Human Medical Products)
Reuters: Health News - Create a Medication List
- Rabbits grow their own joint replacements in study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rabbits implanted with artificial bones re-grew their own joints, complete with cartilage, researchers reported on Thursday.
- Damp house linked to kids' risk of nasal allergies
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who live in damp, water-damaged homes may be more likely than other kids to develop nasal allergies, a new study suggests.
- Pregnancy-related diabetes likely to recur: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women with a history of pregnancy-related diabetes, also called gestational diabetes, have a good chance of developing the condition again, suggests a large new study.
- Little harm seen from painkiller shots for pro athletes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When professional athletes in sports like football and rugby are injured, they commonly get injections of pain-numbing anesthetics to help them stay in the game. Now a new study suggests that, while safety concerns remain, most athletes may not suffer any long-term harm from the practice.
- Calcium supplements may raise risk of heart attack
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Calcium supplements, which many people consume hoping to ward off osteoporosis, may increase the risk of heart attack by as much as 30 percent, researchers reported Friday.
- Protein in urine can forecast kidney disease
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors may be able to watch for kidney injury and protect patients by looking for protein in urine, researchers reported on Thursday.
- EMS systems catch cardiac arrests, and a lot more
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - San Francisco sends out seven ambulances in response to people thought to be in cardiac or respiratory arrest for every one person that is actually in cardiac arrest, according to a new study of the city's Emergency Medical Dispatch system.
- New York to spend big to kill bloodsucking guests
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the city that never sleeps there is one increasingly busy nocturnal resident who New York wants to evict -- the bedbug.
- Obese patients lose weight on new Orexigen drug
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overweight volunteers who took Orexigen's experimental drug Contrave, designed to reduce cravings, lost about 13 pounds (6 kg) over a year, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
- Meth use in pregnancy endangers mom and baby
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research shows that babies born to methamphetamine-using moms face much higher risks of serious complications, compared to babies not exposed in the womb to this illegal street drug.
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