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Studies Lead to Withdrawal of Drug for Bowel Ailment 03/31/2007
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The maker of Zelnorm, a medicine that treats constipation-related irritable bowel syndrome, stopped selling the drug Friday after federal drug officials concluded that it might cause heart attacks and strokes.
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First, a New Artery Stent Study; Now, Questions About What It All Means 03/28/2007
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First, a New Artery Stent Study; Now, Questions About What It All Means
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Illinois Jury Sides With Merck in a 10th Trial Over Painkiller 03/28/2007
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Illinois Jury Sides With Merck in a 10th Trial Over Painkiller
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For Firefighters, the Danger May Be Within 03/27/2007
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The most common cause of death among firefighters at work is not burns or smoke inhalation, but heart attacks, and a new study reports that those attacks are 10 to 100 times as likely to occur when firefighters are suppressing a fire as when performing
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Hopes for a Plaque-Fighting Drug Dim 03/27/2007
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Hopes for a Plaque-Fighting Drug Dim
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In Trial, Drugs Equal Benefits of Artery Stents 03/27/2007
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In Trial, Drugs Equal Benefits of Artery Stents
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You Want to Do What? And You Want to Do It When? 03/25/2007
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The next time someone tells you, ''There's no time like the present,'' ask them what day they had in mind.
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Test Results Due Out Soon Are Crucial to Stents’ Future 03/24/2007
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Test Results Due Out Soon Are Crucial to Stents’ Future
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Defibrillator Maker Props Up Stress Test Company 03/22/2007
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Defibrillator Maker Props Up Stress Test Company
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AtheroGenics Shares Plunge After Heart Drug Fails in Trial 03/20/2007
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AtheroGenics Shares Plunge After Heart Drug Fails in Trial
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Financial Troubles Can Affect the Heart 03/20/2007
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Patients who have trouble paying their medical bills do significantly worse in the year after heart attacks than patients under less financial pressure, a new study finds.
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Erectile Dysfunction In Diabetes Is Due To Selective Defect In The Brain 03/16/2007
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A new study sheds additional light on how erectile dysfunction (ED) interacts with diabetes.
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Erectile Dysfunction In Diabetes Is Due To Selective Defect In The Brain 03/16/2007
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A new study sheds additional light on how erectile dysfunction (ED) interacts with diabetes.
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Erectile Dysfunction In Diabetes Is Due To Selective Defect In The Brain 03/16/2007
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A new study sheds additional light on how erectile dysfunction (ED) interacts with diabetes.
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Death Rate Higher in Heart Attack Patients Hospitalized on Weekends 03/15/2007
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An extensive study of heart attack patients in New Jersey finds that those who arrived at hospitals on weekends were less likely to receive aggressive treatment and were slightly more likely to die than those who arrived on weekdays, researchers are re
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When knees can't take any more 03/12/2007
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Biotechnology is tackling worn-out cartilage with cell culture, artificial plugs and growth factors to coax the knee to heal.
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Study reports viagra drug may help improve exercise capacity in pulmonary fibrosis patients 03/12/2007
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UCLA researchers have found that Viagra may help patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable disease characterized by progressive scarring in the lungs, which often leads to a lung transplant.
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U.S. Approves Novartis Hypertension Drug 03/07/2007
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The Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis said Tuesday that it had received United States approval for the hypertension drug Tekturna, a potential blockbuster that is the first new type of blood pressure medicine in more than a decade.
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The Data Tell a Different Story on Heart Patients 03/07/2007
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Ray Grefe woke up on June 17, 2005, the day before Father’s Day and six days before his 55th birthday, with a sharp pain in his shoulder blades. It was 4 in the morning. His wife, Carol Lei, was asleep.
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Vioxx Plaintiff Is Denied a Second Chance 03/06/2007
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Vioxx Plaintiff Is Denied a Second Chance
