U.S. health officials have started releasing summaries of safety reviews for recently approved medicines as part of their efforts to inform doctors and consumers about potential side effects.
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FDA releases risk summaries for newer drugs
From MSNBC.comMore Americans exercise, but they are still obese (Reuters)
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Reuters - More Americans are exercising but rates of obesity and smoking have not changed, according to the latest government data.
More Americans exercise, but are still obese
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Thirty five percent of Americans now say they exercise an hour a day but rates of obesity and smoking have not changed, according to a government survey.
Clinical Trials Update: June 16, 2010 (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:
Lookalike photos: Like father, like son
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Know a little boy (or girl!) who looks like a mini version of dad? Or a grown-up pair of father-son lookalikes?
FDA staff question female sex-drive pill data (Reuters)
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Reuters - A pill designed to offer women a counterpart to Viagra failed to boost female sex drive in two studies, U.S. drug reviewers said in documents released on Wednesday.
Brown-eyed guys seem tougher
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There's something in the faces of brown-eyed white men that makes them come off as more dominant than their blue-eyed peers, a new study suggests. And it isn't their eye color.
Malawi: Christian sect in measles vaccine standoff (AP)
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AP - More than 100 members of a Christian religious sect have barricaded themselves in an abandoned building in southern Malawi over their refusal to give their children the measles vaccine, a regional health official said Wednesday.
