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FDA warns four manufacturers to deal with 'blackout in a can'
Kansas City Star
By ERIC ADLER Morning to night, Robert Hubbard has watched customers leave his Luichi's Mini Mart with what some call "blackout in a can." They're brain-bending alcoholic beverages — 23.5-ounce towers of high-level alcohol and caffeine, the equivalent ...
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Blasting nerves in kidneys lowers blood pressure, study finds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By John Fauber of the Journal Sentinel Chicago — Blasting nerves in the kidneys with high-frequency energy led to a major drop in blood pressure in people whose hypertension could not be controlled with several medications, a new study found. ...
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Next big thing? Big cholesterol drop with new drug
BusinessWeek
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks and strokes. ...
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Human Genome shares fall on Benlysta concerns
BusinessWeek
Shares of Human Genome Sciences Inc. fell Wednesday after a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approving the company's lupus drug, but raised concerns about the treatments overall effectiveness. The drug's effectiveness on certain ...
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Medicare panel backs costly cancer drug Provenge
BusinessWeek
By MATTHEW PERRONE Medicare advisers on Wednesday supported the effectiveness of the prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that has prompted questions about the cost of medical care and the government's role in paying for it. ...
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States study Massachusetts health-care law
Boston Herald
By Christine McConville It's all eyes on Massachusetts' first-in-the-nation universal health care, as Americans come to terms with their own future under President Obama's universal health-care legislation. The Herald reported yesterday that Bay State ...
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Medicare and Medicaid Chief Defends Health Care Law
New York Times
By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — Dr. Donald M. Berwick, the new chief of Medicare and Medicaid, survived his first confrontation with Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, brushing aside criticism of the new health care law and denouncing efforts to repeal it. ...
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Call to extend breast screening
BBC News
By Helen Briggs Health reporter, BBC News Annual screening for women in their 40s with a family history of breast cancer may save lives, research suggests. The NHS breast screening programme currently offers mammograms to women aged between 50 and 70. ...
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