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Ed Lamb has reported on health care issues since 2001. Focusing especially on prescription drugs, Medicare and pharmacy practice, he has also written about numerous diseases and therapeutic interventions. His articles have appeared in Pharmacy Times and Pharmacy Today, as well as on the eHow Web site.

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Diabetes: 20 million more case over next 25 years

Friday, November 27th, 2009 · 1 comment

Nov. 27--Working with a current understanding of how the diease develops and the most up-to-date-statistics on what Americans weigh and how they eat...
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Hold the salt at Thansksgiving (and every other meal) to stop strokes

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Nov. 25--Forty years of data from studies around the world show that "habitual salt intake" raises a person's risk for suffering a stroke,...
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Stork Craft drop-side cribs recalled--again

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Nov. 24--Millions of Stork Craft, Storkling and Fisher-Price drop-side cribs sold between 1993 and 2009 are being recalled because hardware problems...
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Football: Concussion detection, treatment gain urgency at all levels

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Nov. 23--News broke last night that NFL teams would need to have players cleared by a nonteam neurologist before allowing the athletes to return to...
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Swine flu deaths near 30 in Virginia

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 · 4 comments

Nov. 22--The Virginia Department of Health announced on Friday that 29 Commonwealth residents had died from swine flu and complications of the disease...
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Swine flu vaccine safe, worldwide data show

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Nov. 20--The World Health Organization announced yesterday that among the 65 million adults and children who have received any form of swine flu...
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Black Friday safety: Is any price worth dying for?

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Nov.19--Wal-Mart this morning started advertising that it would offer a few 42-inch plasma TVs for $448 on the morning on Friday, Nov. 27. Other...
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Shingles pain relief the promise of new prescription patch

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Nov. 17 approved a first-of-its-kind medical treatment for the pain caused by shingles disease. The Qutenza...
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Fifth swine flu vaccine licensed by FDA

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Nov. 17--With demand for vaccines to protect people against the H1N1 influenza virus still lagging demand, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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Cholesterol lowering may not prevent strokes or heart attacks, Zetia studies show

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Nov. 16--Highly promoted LDL cholesterol-lowering drug Zetia works. This does not seem to matter for people who take the medicine that Merck and...
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