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FDA warns pregnant migraine sufferers against anti-seizure drugs
The Food and Drug Administration is warning physicians that women who suffer migraine headaches and are pregnant or may become pregnant should not use the drugs valproate or valproic acid to prevent the severe headaches, in light of new evidence showing...
Tags: Headaches, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Food and Drug Administration, Migraine
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Letters: Vietnam today
Re "The Vietnam syndrome," Opinion, May 5 Frank Snepp, a former CIA analyst who was in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975, worries that we may not have learned the lessons of our war in that country. He may have missed the most important lesson....
Tags: Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq, Los Angeles International Airport, Barack Obama
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Letters: Not so fast on Syria
Re "A 'red line' on Syria," Editorial, April 25 The lessons of our disastrous invasion of Iraq have been ignored. Syria presents no direct threat to the U.S., and yet the foreign policy elite and the media are increasingly saying we may have to...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq
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Letters: The language of Justice Scalia
Re "Scalia's poison pen," Opinion, April 14 Bigoted as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's views on homosexuality seem, he makes a valid legal point by intimating that equal protection claims asserted to support gay marriage similarly support...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Religion and Belief, Antonin Scalia, Values, Crime, Law and Justice
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Retired athletes to protest workers' compensation bill
SACRAMENTO — Let the political games begin. A battle between professional athletes and owners of football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer teams starts Monday. Dozens of retired athletes plan a news conference on the steps of the state...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Sports, Jacksonville Jaguars, J. J. Stokes, Justice System
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Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'
About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Values, Medical Procedures and Tests, Research, Biology
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FDA approves an old drug for morning sickness
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a drug to treat the severe nausea and vomiting that some women experience during early pregnancy. The Canadian-made medication will be marketed as Diclegis. It is the only prescription medication...
Tags: Drug Trafficking, Manufacturing and Engineering, Heavy Engineering, Food and Drug Administration, Antihistamines
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Fukushima nuclear disaster adds only small health risks, WHO says
The 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami that triggered a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station has resulted in only a small increase in lifetime cancer risks for people living nearby, and an even smaller...
Tags: Leukemia, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Tokyo Electric Power Co., Environmental Issues, United Nations
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Air pollution linked to birth defects in San Joaquin Valley, study says
Researchers have linked air pollution and birth defects among pregnant women in the San Joaquin Valley, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine. The study looked at women between 1997 and 2006, including 806 whose pregnancies were...
Tags: Stanford University, Environmental Pollution, Air Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Emily Rapp writes her way through grief in 'Still Point of the Turning World''
Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their then-9-month-old son to a pediatric ophthalmologist because of concerns about developmental delays. Ronan,...
Tags: Emily Dickinson, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Esophageal cancer, Amputation
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C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former U.S. surgeon general
In the mid-1980s, the emerging AIDS epidemic was a high-profile target of vocal conservatives. Politicians and the religious right called for sweeping measures against those diagnosed with AIDS, including quarantine of patients, mandatory screening of...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Tobacco Addiction, Heroin, Social Issues, Diseases and Illnesses
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Folic acid linked to reduced risk of autism spectrum disorders
Mothers who took folic acid supplements around the time they became pregnant were less likely to have children with an autism spectrum disorder, a new study has found. Researchers in Norway examined health records of more than 85,000 children born there...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Autism, Food and Drug Administration, American School for the Deaf, Behavioral Conditions
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