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Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana
Illinois has come within a signature of becoming the 19th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. On Friday, the state Senate voted 35-21 to approve a medical marijuana measure, which now will head for Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. The...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Health Treatments, AIDS, Illinois Governor, Prescription Drugs
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Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of murder
PHILADELPHIA — An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his "house of horrors" clinic. In a case that became a...
Tags: Kermit Gosnell, Woodbridge, Prosecution, Rentals, Demerol (drug)
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FDA allows sales of generic Opana painkiller to continue
Federal regulators said Friday that they would continue to allow sales of generic Opana, a narcotic painkiller similar to OxyContin, even though the pills are prone to abuse. Like OxyContin, Opana is an extended-release narcotic designed to offer pain...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Prescription Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, New Products
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Generic version of narcotic Opana still for sale despite concerns
Federal regulators said Friday they would continue to allow sales of generic Opana, a narcotic painkiller similar to OxyContin, even though the pills are prone to abuse. Like OxyContin, Opana is an extended-release narcotic designed to offer pain...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Prescription Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, Pain
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Abortion doctor guilty of killing 3 babies said to be born alive
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a...
Tags: Criminal Laws, Kermit Gosnell, Woodbridge, Laws, Media Industry
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19 charged in undercover drug probe at San Diego County schools
Nineteen people are being charged with selling drugs after an undercover operation at four high schools in northern San Diego County by youthful sheriff's deputies posing as students, officials said Tuesday. Nine are current or former students and 10...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Heroin
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Death of son of Clippers owner is ruled accidental
The death earlier this year of Scott Sterling, 32-year-old son of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, was caused by a pulmonary embolism and "intravenous narcotic medication intake," the Los Angeles County coroner said Monday. The death was...
Tags: Donald Sterling, New Year's Day, Accidental Death, Prescription Drugs, Food and Drug Administration
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Smoking and the right to dumb choices
As thoroughly awful as everyone knows cigarettes to be — still the No. 1 cause of premature death in this country — public officials walk a blurry line when they try to reduce smoking's terrible toll. As long as they lack the will to ban...
Tags: Marketing, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Council, Tobacco Products, Advertising
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Death of Scott Sterling, son of Clippers owner, ruled accidental
Scott Sterling, the 32-year-old son of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, died as a result of a pulmonary embolism and "narcotic medication intake" in what Los Angeles County coroner's officials classified as an accidental death, authorities...
Tags: Reese Witherspoon, Donald Sterling, Accidental Death, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Pharmaceuticals
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Alleged O.C. drug dealer charged with murder in overdose death
An alleged Mission Viejo drug dealer is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a charge of murder in the death of a 21-year-old woman by providing her with a lethal dose of drugs and then refusing to take her to the hospital after she lost consciousness....Tags: Justice System, Punishment, Murder, Prosecution, Skype
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San Bernardino County physician's assistant sentenced
A San Bernardino County physician’s assistant who pleaded guilty to illegally distributing a widely abused painkiller was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in federal prison. Christopher Henry Lister, 51, of Victorville ran a mobile health clinic...Tags: Punishment, General Practitioners, Trials, Court Preliminary
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Drug overdose prevention could be right at our fingertips
What do you think is the leading cause of accidental death in California? If you said car accidents, you were wrong. In 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 3,200 people in the state died in automobile crashes, while 3,561...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Food and Drug Administration, Pharmaceuticals, General Practitioners, Epinephrine
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