Thursday, November 18, 2010

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State bans sales of caffeine-alcohol drinks
Boston Globe
Four Loko and other alcoholic drinks containing caffeine were to be removed from store shelves by the end of yesterday. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) By Martin Finucane and Travis Andersen The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission is ...
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Boston Globe
Great American Smokeout snub
SILive.com
AP file photo STATEN ISLAND, NY -- While Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx played host to city-sponsored information booths yesterday for the Great American Smokeout, the borough with the highest percentage of smokers got the short end of the ...
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SILive.com
Excess Bleeding Forces Halt to Apixaban ACS Trial
MedPage Today
By Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage Today Apixaban, a novel anticoagulant that seemed to be on a glide path to FDA approval, has been detoured by excess bleeding that caused a data safety monitoring board to halt a phase III trial of the drug, ...
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Hong Kong: Bird Flu Checks Increase
New York Times
By KEVIN DREW Health authorities said Thursday that they were increasing their checks on poultry coming from mainland China and at farms and markets across the region after government officials confirmed the first case of bird flu in seven years in the ...
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Amgen's Bone Drug Denosumab Cleared to Treat Fractures in Cancer Patients
Bloomberg
By Rob Waters - Fri Nov 19 05:01:00 GMT 2010 Amgen Inc.'s osteoporosis drug denosumab was approved by US regulators for reducing fractures in prostate and breast cancer patients, an indication that could boost sales to $2.4 billion in five years. ...
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Nearly 1 in 5 Americans had mental illness in 2009
msnbc.com
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Nov 18 (Reuters Life!) - More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of US adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, US government researchers reported on Thursday. ...
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Study finds dying cancer patients often don't use hospices
Seattle Times
By LEE BOWMAN Hospice care was designed for cancer patients. Medicare has covered the end-of-life services for nearly 30 years. Yet a new study finds that only about half of Medicare patients dying from cancer are getting any hospice services in their ...
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