Ledger had 6 types of prescription drugs
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Six different types of prescription drugs were found in Heath Ledger's apartment.
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The actor Heath Ledger died from an accidental overdose of six different drugs Â painkillers and sedatives Â the medical examiner said Wednesday, leading doctors to warn of the dangers of mixing prescription drugs.
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More than 40 percent of Americans are taking at least one prescription drug and one person in every six takes three or more, the government said Thursday.
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Heath Ledger's death by accidental overdose should serve as a warning to others not to mix prescription drugs, his father said, calling the loss an enduring agony for his family.
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Three drugs -- Vioxx, Ketek and Avandia -- are casting long shadows over the congressional debate on how to update and revise the 15-year-old system that has dramatically  sped up the process of bringing  prescription medicines to American consumers.
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Medicines watchdogs are reviewing safety data for an entire class of drugs taken by millions of patients with arthritis and severe pain after the worldwide withdrawal of Merck&#39;s Vioxx last week.
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Use of drugs such as Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft has nearly tripled in the last decade amid questions about the costs and safety of many prescription drugs.
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Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, New York's medical examiner rules.
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Scientists develop a dental implant that doses patients with prescription drugs over time -- it's headed for clinical testing. In Gadget Lab.
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Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday. The cause of death was "acute intoxication by the combined effects of o...
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New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs.
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Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.
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Coupling New England ingenuity with anti-counterfeiting technology, doctors and police in Rutland, Vt., have developed a plan to thwart drug users who forge prescriptions for powerful pain killers like OxyContin.
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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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ST. PAUL - Minnesota officially joined six other states Thursday in a prescription-drug-purchasing pool aimed at getting cheaper medicine for people in the Medicaid program.
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New developments are brewing at the pharmaceutical.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry