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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POPTUN, Guatemala  - Ten months after the deaths of eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in a botched raid in the Congo jungle, two U.N. investigations have failed to solve the mystery of whether they died in friendly fire or were gunned down by rebels.
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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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DAVID, Panama, Dec. 26 -- A 12-year-old American girl, the sole survivor of a weekend plane crash, was aided by rescue workers for several hours through remote mountains and then airlifted to a Panamanian hospital where she was reunited Wednesday with anxious relatives.
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PANAMA CITY -- Panamanian authorities have filed charges against the administrator of a Spanish company that allegedly sold a deadly chemical used in medicine that has killed at least 94 people in Panama.
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NEW YORK -- After a drug ingredient from China killed dozens of Haitian children a decade ago, a senior American health official sent a cable to her investigators: Find out who made the poisonous ingredient and why a state-owned company in China exported it as safe, pharmaceutical-grade glycerin.
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&#39;Two central points remain: There is no clear diagnosis of the reason for the death; and the toxicological tests were made, and no known poison was found.
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Peru looks to cash in soon after explaining mystery illness.
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The New York City chief medical examinerâs office blamed the âabuse of prescription medicationsâ in the actorâs death.
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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.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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Officials at Kings County Hospital Center said that they were âclosely examiningâ why doctors there failed to detect a drug-resistant staph infection in a boy who died this month.
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Heath Ledger died accidentally from the abuse of  prescription medications â specifically, six kinds of painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs.
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A doctor's administration of drugs hastened the deaths of two babies and was "tantamount to euthanasia", an inquiry hears.
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Due to serious health concerns, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled the popular injectable heartworm medicine called ProHeart 6. The FDA says the product was recalled because of adverse reaction reports associated with the product.
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Chinaâs recent crackdown on unsafe pharmaceuticals came too late for some victims, like Du Haipeng and Liu Sichen, who were treated with a contaminated drug.
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New York state health officials are investigating an unusual cluster of deaths in an upstate New York county that have all been caused by the same rare brain disease, they said Wednesday.