Panama examines 6 for tainted medicine
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Panamanian investigators exhumed six more bodies Thursday to determine whether the deceased died from ingesting medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol, a chemical cousin of antifreeze.
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China is to review tens of thousands of drug licences as part of an investigation into a corruption scandal.
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At least 14 people are arrested in Brazil as part of a series of anti-drug raids across six states.
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American drug inspectors found contamination and other problems in 2003 at a British plant that manufactures the flu vaccine that were similar to conditions that resulted
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaraguan police said they   arrested six people on Wednesday suspected of distributing cane   liquor adulterated with poisonous methanol that has killed at   least 38 people this month.
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When representatives from Major League Baseball met with members of the Albany, N.Y., district attorney's office Monday they were looking to get a better handle on the investigation into an extensive prescription-drug distribution ring, a probe that already has seen a number of major league players linked to the purchase of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Federal prosecutors and the S.E.C. are investigating Merck in connection with its recalled pain reliever, Vioxx.
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U.S. health regulators are investigating the illnesses of eight people from a virus linked to raw, frozen oysters imported from South Korea and served at an Oregon event, the Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday they are investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to medical syringes contaminated with bacteria.
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Businesses in Panama, not China were "mainly responsible" for passing off an industrial chemical as a medical ingredient leading to the deaths of at least 51 people, a senior official in China's product-inspection agency said Thursday.
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A sixth suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease is being investigated on a farm in Surrey.
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Federal health authorities are looking for people who may have been exposed aboard a plane to someone infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
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Federal agents at the Port of Miami have seized a shipment of prescription drugs ordered from a Canadian pharmacy, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday.
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The U.S. Congress began  investigating on Wednesday whether the U.S. Food and Drug  Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led  to the withdrawal of half the country's flu vaccine supply.
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WASHINGTON -- Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed in consumers who ate fish harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
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Doctors, nurses and pharmacists with Novant Health spent a good deal of 2001 poring over the medical records of 3,000 patients, looking for any sign that the drugs that patients received had done them some harm as well as some good.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new report on Tuesday describing potential risks of several medicines after criticism that it was lax in policing drugs once they were on the market.