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US court rules again against vaccine-autism claims Reuters WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special US court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents ... 'Vaccines court' rejects mercury-autism link in 3 test casesLos Angeles Times Court says thimerosal did not cause autismThe Associated Press Special Court Says Connection Between Vaccines and Autism is 'Scientifically ...ABC News Autism Support Network -Courthouse News Service -MedPage Today all 329 news articles »

Washington Post

New Plavix Warning: Lack of Effect in Many People WebMD March 11, 2010 - The FDA has put a new "black box" warning on the anti-clotting drug Plavix, the second best-selling drug in the world. The new label warns that normal doses of Plavix have a potentially deadly lack of effect in 2% ... FDA warning: some patients cannot process PlavixHouston Chronicle Plavix gets new FDA warningReuters FDA Adds Boxed Warning To Plavix On EffectivenessWall Street Journal BusinessWeek -GenomeWeb Daily News -The Associated Press all 449 news articles »

National Post

Hurdles Remain for City's Settlement of 9/11 Suit New York Times Lawyers for 9/11 cleanup and rescue workers who sued the city over ensuing damage to their health said on Friday that a deal to settle the cases for up to $657.5 million would right a historic wrong, and predicted that it would result ... Lawyers urge WTC workers to take $657M settlementThe Associated Press US judge postpones World Trade Center worker settlementXinhua $650m compensation settlement for heroes of September 11Times Online CNN -WCBS-TV New York -New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV all 1,028 news articles »

Hindustan Times

How birth control pills may affect our ability to find a proper mate. ABC News In a population-based study of women in the UK, death from any cause was 12 percent lower among birth control pill users than among those who never took the drugs, Dr. Philip Hannaford of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and colleagues reported ... 'Pill' Won't Shorten Your Life: StudyU.S. News & World Report Women on the pill may live longerThe Associated Press Women on pill 'may live longer'BBC News myGLOSS -Scotsman -RedOrbit all 494 news articles »

CBC.ca

Infant Deaths Spur Baby Sling Warning WebMD March 12, 2010 - After a spate of infant suffocation deaths, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning parents to think twice before putting infants under 4 months of age into baby slings. ... Infant deaths prompt gov't warning on slingsThe Associated Press Government Issues Safety Warning on Baby Slings After SuffocationsABC News New Warning on Baby SlingsU.S. News & World Report (blog) CBS News -Los Angeles Times (blog) -New York Times (blog) all 585 news articles »

BBC News

Health Buzz: Variable Blood Pressure May Boost Stroke Risk U.S. News & World Report New research suggests that having unstable blood pressure—with episodes of hypertension—might put you at risk of stroke, the Associated Press reports. Peter Rothwell, a University of Oxford professor who authored four papers published ... Occasional High Blood Pressure Risky, Too?WebMD Fluctuating high blood pressure and strokes7Online.com People with variable blood pressure at stroke riskThe Associated Press The Guardian -ModernMedicine -NHS Choices all 213 news articles »

KVAL

Study: Too many angiograms given Minneapolis Star Tribune A troublingly high number of US patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests. The researchers said the ... Are Doctors Recommending Too Many Tests?ABC News Heart Angiograms Show No Disease in Almost 40%BusinessWeek Study Faults High Number of AngiogramsNewsinferno.com Wall Street Journal -Kaiser Health News all 232 news articles »

TopNews New Zealand

Pfizer Disappointed in Study Results for Two Drugs Wall Street Journal Pfizer Inc. said it ended a Phase III trial for its experimental lung-cancer drug called figitumumab. The drug giant also announced two Phase III studies of its advanced breast-cancer drug Sutent failed to meet their primary endpoints. ... Pfizer says Sutent breast cancer trials failReuters Pfizer's prospects for lung cancer drug fadeThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com Pfizer ends study on potential lung cancer drugThe Associated Press Zacks.com -FierceBiotech -MarketNewsVideo.com all 214 news articles »

MSN Health & Fitness

Knee Replacements: Are You Too Young, Too Old, Too Fat, or Too Active? U.S. News & World Report Getting a new knee because the original has worn out and may have become painfully arthritic is an increasingly common surgery in America. First-time knee replacement surgeries rose 63 percent between 1997 and 2004, according to a 2008 ... AAOS: Playing Sports After Knee Arthroplasty Might Be OkayMedPage Today High-Impact Sports Might Not Harm Knee ReplacementsPalm Beach Post New Knee May Improve BalanceBusinessWeek Columbus Ledger-Enquirer -PR Newswire (press release) -eMaxHealth all 43 news articles »

MediaGlobal

Doubling of maternal deaths in US 'scandalous,' rights group says CNN One-third of pregnant women in the United States suffer from pregnancy-related complications each year, the report says. (CNN) -- Deaths from pregnancy and childbirth in the United States have doubled in the past 20 years, a development that a human ... Amnesty International: In the U.S., Too Many Women Dying While Having BabiesTIME La. near bottom in maternal mortality2TheAdvocate Group says more maternal care needed in NebraskaNTV The Guardian -UPI.com -CNSNews.com all 206 news articles »