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FDA warns some antibiotics can cause fatal heart damage https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-warns-some-antibiotics-can-cause-serious-heart-damage-n950606 Certain antibiotics can cause painful and sometimes fatal damage to the body’s main artery, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. Fluoroquinolone antibiotics might raise the risk of an aortic dissection, and people who are already at risk should be cautious about taking those antibiotics, […]

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Human Rights Watch Accuses Tennessee Of Over-Regulating Pain Management https://www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/human-rights-watch-accuses-tennessee-over-regulating-pain-management#stream/0 A report from Human Rights Watch accuses Tennessee of regulating opioids to the point of depriving patients in pain. Along with Washington State, the analysis focuses on Tennessee because of its new prescribing regulations, which are considered some of the strictest in the nation. In […]

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‘Widespread and dangerous’: Facing medical uncertainty, some doctors tell patients it’s all in their heads https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/21/health/medical-uncertainty-diagnosis-afm/index.html         VIDEO ON LINK When 7-year-old Bailey Sheehan arrived at a hospital in Oregon partially paralyzed, a doctor said the girl was faking her symptoms to get her parents’ attention because she was jealous of her new baby sister. But […]

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