Death Leads to Additional Safety Warnings for &#39;Morning After Pill
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The Food and Drug Administration will add additional warnings to RU-48, the so-called &#39;morning after pill&#39; after the death of an 18 year-old California woman last year.
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A new study shows that the prescription drug Vioxx can drastically increase a person&#39;s risk of sudden cardiac death, and that risk is greater if you take a higher dose, or if you take it for a long time.
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The implication of an abortion pill in the death of an 18-year-old California woman will add new warnings linking RU-486 to the risk of bacterial infection.
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Two new studies are offering mixed signals about the long-term safety of repeatedly giving pregnant women steroid drugs intended to prevent complications once a premature delivery seems likely.
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The government on Tuesday said a controversial abortion pill is safe enough to remain on the market, despite a third death and a grieving father's plea.
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NEW YORK  - Deaths related to medication  errors appear to rise sharply during the first few days of each  month, suggesting that hectic pharmacies may be at least partly  to blame, according to researchers.
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Cephalon Inc. warned doctors about deaths that have been linked to its Fentora pain drug for cancer patients, U.S. health regulators said on Thursday.
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The maker of the morning-after pill said it received assurances Tuesday that the government would quickly settle a three-year battle to sell the emergency contraceptive without a prescription to at least some women.
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Amidst reports of another young woman&#39;s death related to an FDA-approved abortion pill, pro-lifers are again calling for the drug to be pulled from the market.
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The little purple pill may leave some people at a greater risk of pneumonia. And, it&#39;s not just the little purple pill. These new findings apply to a number of widely used heart burn and ulcer drugs.
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Some see easy access to emergency contraception as a way to drastically reduce teen pregnancy, already on the decline since the early 1990s. Others worry that its long-term effects on young women are unknown or argue that the drug, also known as the "morning after pill," encourages teens to have sex.
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Cephalon Inc. has warned doctors about deaths that have been linked to its Fentora pain drug for cancer patients, U.S. health regulators said on Thursday.
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Our position is: Greater drug safety needs to be coupled with awareness that some risk is inherent in medicine. When it comes to assurances of drug safety, consumers would be advised to heed George Bernard Shaw&#39;s warning to beware of what they wish for.
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Police issue a warning about ecstasy tablets following the sudden death of a young man in Coleraine.
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A month after distribution began, the over-the-counter version of the morning-after pill is now available at pharmacies nationwide. Planned Parenthood celebrated yesterday with a free giveaway of the emergency contraceptive, while critics insisted that Plan B's accessibility will soon be a cause for regret.
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Federal drug regulators strengthened the warning label on the pill, RU-486, after the death of a woman who took the pill.
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Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, is under review again by the Food and Drug Administration after it previously denied over-the-counter sale of the drug. Women's groups charge the decision was political, not scientific.