Panama recalls medicine after mystery deaths
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Panamanian authorities recalled a popular high blood pressure medicine after investigations linked it to a mystery illness that has killed 19 people.
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TRENTON, NJ Sept. 2, 2004 - A New Jersey man who recently returned from a trip to Liberia has died of an illness that had not been detected in the United States since 1989 but is common in West Africa, state health officials said Thursday.
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Scientists want to exhume the body of a British diplomat who died of Spanish flu during the 1919 pandemic in hopes of discovering clues to fight a possible future global outbreak sparked by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.
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Federal prosecutors and US Food and Drug Administration officials are investigating a Tucson company believed to have sold an unapproved botulism-based drug that has paralyzed four people in Florida and New Jersey.
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China is investigating a state-owned trading company's role in tainted medicine that killed at least 94 people in Panama, an official said Monday, as the European Union urged Beijing to be more vigilant about product safety.
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ANSONIA, Conn. - They were looking for drugs, but also found bugs...
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At least nine people - seven of them children - have died in flooding in the capital of Panama. The authorities say at least 13 people are still missing after heavy rainfall caused rivers to break their banks.
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Merck recalls 1.2 million doses of a children's vaccine.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - Doctors threw together a makeshift clinic yesterday to tend to the injured after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. Remnants of the storm drenched Central America in rain and the death toll rose to 18, with dozens missing.
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Mexican authorities are investigating the sale of fake or substandard medicine in a border town so popular among Americans seeking cheap medications that it has more pharmacies than streets.    U.S...
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Authorities in Costa Rica said Tuesday they are investigating the mysterious deaths of about 500 brown pelicans along the country's Pacific coast over the last five days but do not suspect bird flu was the cause.
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Panama said on Friday that it would investigate how a known Colombian drug trafficker managed to obtain Panamanian residence, ID cards, bank accounts and even a $12 million private island without being noticed.
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A medical panel clears a doctor who gave a paralysing drug to two dying babies of acting inappropriately.
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Calgary - A mistake that led to the death of a 69-year-old man after he was given the wrong medication could have happened at any hospital, an independent report into the error concluded.
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United Nations officials said they did not know if Ebola was the cause of a mystery illness that has killed more than 100 people.
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At least nine people - seven of them children - have died in flooding in the capital of Panama.
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An Oregon man stopped taking the painkiller Vioxx when it was pulled from the market, switching to Bextra. Then questions were raised about Bextra &#151; and four other drugs &#151; and he returned to his doctor with a new set of worries. Similar conversations are happening between doctors and patients all around the country.