Drugs warning after four collapse
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Police have issued a public warning after four men collapsed after apparently taking recreational drugs
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SOME of the biggest companies in the drug industry are shivering under an avalanche of bad news. Merck has already been hit hard by the withdrawal of Vioxx, its arthritis drug.
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Shares in pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca PLC and GlaxoSmithKline PLC tumbled Friday after a US safety official raised concerns over key drugs sold by the companies.
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(New York-WABC, November 19, 2004) - There was stunning testimony in Congress Thursday: A government official warned about what he considers dangerous drugs on the market.
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Parents are urged to take better control after children as young as four are caught house-breaking.
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Drug stocks took another hit Friday, a day after a veteran Food and Drug Administration researcher said that five drugs currently on the market needed closer scrutiny for possible safety risks.
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Experts are set to publish the final report into the drugs trial which left six men seriously ill.
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The spate of bad news about painkillers has dealt a major setback to what had been a highly promising effort to use the drugs to prevent a host of leading killers, including many types of cancer, Alzheimer&#39;s disease and other forms of dementia.
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Medicines watchdogs are reviewing safety data for an entire class of drugs taken by millions of patients with arthritis and severe pain after the worldwide withdrawal of Merck&#39;s Vioxx last week.
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SIX binmen were taken to hospital today after a split rubbish bag caused a chemical alert in Ilford. The men were handling rubbish in Elgin Road at 7.50am when the bag split, spilling liquid onto the ground and releasing toxic fumes which they inhaled.
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The pharmaceutical industry endured a disastrous 2004, and the aftermath will linger into the new year. Regulators at the Food and Drug
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A European medicines regulator will today order a safety review of four powerful painkilling drugs taken by more than 750,000 people in Britain amid fears that they could increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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A warning by the regulator who spearheaded investigations into Vioxx that five further drugs may have safety concerns has prompted a plunge in shares in major pharmaceuticals companies.
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European drug regulators are conducting a safety review of four arthritis drugs amid reports that they could increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
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Almost 3,000 people have died in the past three years after suffering serious side-effects or allergies to their medicines, official figures show.
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Business & money: Packs blamed for drop in number of four-bedroom homes on market.
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LUSAKA  - The Zambian government declared a five-year emergency over the AIDS (news - web sites) pandemic to allow for cheap generic anti-retroviral drugs to be produced locally.