Lawyer: Staph patient given allergy medicine
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Just days before his death, the Brooklyn middle-school student who died from an antibiotic-resistant staph infection had visited a hospital with skin lesions and was treated with allergy medicine, according to the family's lawyer, Paul Weitz.
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Doctors prescribing opioids in doses that seems high to narcotics agents and prosecutors are at risk of a trial. And once in the courtroom, anything can happen.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved using an antibiotic originally designed for humans to help treat skin infections suffered by dogs.
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Fresno allergist AM Aminian got about 15 telephone calls Friday from patients wondering whether they should continue taking the asthma medication Serevent
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Drug-resistant staph infections are scary. But theyâre nothing new.
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Allergan Inc., a maker of pharmaceutical products, on Monday said the Food and Drug Administration filed an affidavit in a federal court that shows its Botox treatment played no role in the case of four patients who became ill after treatments by an
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Public schools in Mount Vernon are being disinfected after a worker and a student showed signs of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, authorities said.
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The anti-industry crusader targets pharmaceuticals.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey jury on Tuesday found that Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG failed to adequately warn a patient of the bowel disease risks associated with its potent acne medicine Accutane and awarded him $2.5 million in damages.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS 2) A California couple is suing the makers of children&#39;s Motrin. The suit alleges seven-year-old Sabrina Brierton went blind when she suffered an allergic reaction to the drug.
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Drug-resistant staph infections that have made headlines in recent weeks come from what the nation's top doctor calls "the cockroach of bacteria" Â a bad germ that can lurk in lots of places, but not one that should trigger panic.
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Roche Holding lost the first of 400 lawsuits claiming its Accutane acne drug causes inflammatory bowel disease when a jury awarded an Alabama man $2.62 million.
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Scientists identify two blood chemicals linked to itchy eczema, offering new treatment possibilities.
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Hospitals can successfully tackle the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection with an aggressive program to immediately identify and quarantine patients carrying the superbug, infectious disease doctors said at a conference Tuesday.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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NEW YORK  - A cream that blocks allergic  substances from entering the nose seems to reduce symptoms in  patients with hay fever, new research shows. The cream, known  as Alergol, is applied inside the lower nose where it traps  these substances.