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FDA advisors endorse weight-loss drug Qnexa
A panel of medical experts voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to endorse the controversial weight-loss drug Qnexa, clearing the way for the Food and Drug Administration to approve a new prescription obesity medication for the first time since 1999.
The FDA...Tags: Trials, Elections, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drug Administration, Phentermine (drug)
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Woman gave newborn away to keep birth news from partner, police say
A woman gave away her newborn baby because she wanted to conceal the birth from her female romantic partner, Long Beach police said. After giving birth to a girl at a home Monday, Paloma Espinoza, 28, of Long Beach handed off the infant to her mother,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Abusive Behavior
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Largely unnoticed, Maarat Numan, Syria, fends off a regime
The first shot, apparently fired by a government sniper, scattered children who had gathered near a forlorn pair of rusted amusement park rides.
The second round, a loud boom from a Russian-made armored vehicle, sent everyone scrambling. Shopkeepers...Tags: Religion and Belief, Damascus (Syria), Criminals, Aleppo (Syria), Armed Forces
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Diet drug Qnexa should be approved, panel says
The diet drug Qnexa has cleared a major hurdle toward eventual Food and Drug Administration approval. An independent panel of medical experts who advise the agency voted Wednesday that Qnexa's significant weight-loss benefit outweighed its potential...Tags: Chemicals, Elections, Obesity, Pharmaceuticals, Drugs and Medicines
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Diet drug Qnexa will get a second look
Diet drugs have failed to impress government health regulators in recent years with several prospective medications being denied approval and another drug taken off the market. Hopes for the first new diet pill in about 13 years now rest with a meeting...Tags: Chemicals, Obesity, Weight Loss, Pharmaceuticals, Drugs and Medicines
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Conservative vs. Liberal: Healthcare
Opinion L.A.On Sunday, Charlotte Allen, who describes herself as a conservative somewhere to the right of Pedro the Cruel, and Diana Wagman, a pacifist, vegetarian, Prius-driving, NPR-listening liberal, explained in separate Opinion articles why they have trouble... -
A contraception game-changer
Presidents, politicians and physicians are fighting over who should pay for contraception, and women are getting hurt in the process.
Roman Catholic bishops reject even President Obama's recent compromise not requiring religiously affiliated hospitals...Tags: Christianity, Skin Cancer, Religion and Belief, HIV, Ibuprofen (drug)
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Chinese couples come to U.S. to have children through surrogacy
Americans have long gone to China to adopt babies. In a twist, Chinese couples are now coming here to become parents — through surrogacy.
China does not permit surrogate parenting, but that country's rising affluence has given many couples the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Companies and Corporations, China, Charity
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Valentine's Day: 5 songs to love from Whitney Houston, T-Pain, etc.
Pop & HissValentine's Day: Here's a Valentine's Day playlist filled not simply with the best love songs (whatever that means), but with some of those that take a more particular stance, from Whitney Houston to Toby Keith.... -
Birth-control flap shows the need to abort employer-based healthcare
It wasn't a retreat. Nor was it a compromise. It was an "accommodation."
That's how the White House spun President Obama's attempt last week to tamp down the political brush fire that had erupted over requiring all health insurance plans —...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Crime, Law and Justice, Christianity, Civil Rights, Collective Contract
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The Unreal World: A miscarriage in 'A Separation'
"A Separation"
Hopscotch Films, Golem Distribution
U.S. release: September
The premise
Nader (Peyman Moaadi) refuses to leave Iran with his wife because his aged father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) suffers from Alzheimer's disease, causing a schism between...Tags: Harvard Medical School, Psychiatry, Behavioral Conditions, Stress, Obstetrics
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Pregnant woman, 3 others injured in South L.A. crash
L.A. NOWA 37-year-old pregnant woman and three others, including two small children, were injured Monday night in a vehicle collision in South Los Angeles....
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