Trial opens in growth hormone deaths
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Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who died of a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones.
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Scientists are beginning a gene therapy trial which they hope will extend the lives of patients with muscular dystrophy.
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A new study published in the journal Endocrinology reveals that giving Prozac to children may result in a loss of bone mass. The study was conducted on mice and showed an average 9.4% less bone formation in
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A woman suggested binding her developmentally disabled 3-year-old foster son inside a closet, making her responsible for his death even if she did not intend it, prosecutors said Thursday as her murder trial opened.
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A leading American baseball player admitted yesterday that he injected himself with human growth hormone while the man who allegedly provided him with the banned drug, Victor Conte, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative founder and owner, prepared to tell
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Researchers in Dundee are set to trial a new treatment for children struck with a deadly skin condition.
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One murder case has attracted special attention amid a debate over the safety of antidepressant use in children and teenagers.
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Baseball investigator George Mitchell , also a director for the Red Sox, yesterday denied providing information for a story that Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd used human growth hormone. Before Game 7 Sunday, Byrd acknowledged using HGH after the San Francisco Chronicle reported he spent nearly $25,000 on the drug and syringes from 2002-05 - before HGH was banned by ...
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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Drug makers are being asked for the first time to put a comprehensive suicide assessment into clinical trials.
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The trial of 21 medical workers allegedly linked to an HIV outbreak is under way in Kazakhstan.
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Scientists launched a trial on Monday to  test whether a new drug works as an initial treatment against  the most common form of lung cancer.
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Seven go on trial over the deaths of more than 100 children from the human form of mad cow disease.
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Jury selection began Tuesday for the trial of the man accused of killing a 10-year-old girl whose mutilated body was found stuffed into a plastic tub.
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An experimental vaccine extended the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer in a clinical trial, the therapy&#39;s developer, the Dendreon Corporation, announced yesterday.
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Under scrutiny the case in which a male patient died earlier this year, showing symptoms consistent with a rare and invariably fatal brain disease.
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BALTIMORE -- British researchers have begun human trials to investigate a vaccine that could possibly cure type 1 diabetes. Meanwhile, overindulging in food during the holiday season can pose dangerous health risks for type 2 diabetics.