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- December 15, 2010
As it turns out, the brain, once thought to be fully grown after puberty, is still evolving into its adult shape well into a person's third decade. Biologists, psychologists and sociologists are increasingly seeing the years between 18 to 25 as a distinct phase of human development, worthy of much more study. Dr. Jeffrey J.
READ MOREA new study found that people with a common type of abnormal heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation) were more likely to die within several years if they had been prescribed digoxin, a drug used to help control abnormal heart rates. Reuters, 11/28/2012
READ MOREOverdoses on prescription drugs are at an all-time high and are becoming a very serious issue. The Today Show, 12/31/2012
READ MORESo far, 11 people in 10 states have died and 119 are ill from fungal meningitis that was apparently caused by contaminated injections of a steroid used to treat pain. The outbreak is part of a complex issue that involves compounding pharmacies that are only partially regulated by the FDA, as well as a rise
READ MOREAccording to the Raven Maria Blanco Foundation, which seeks to alert parents to the potential dangers of the increasingly widespread use of oral sedatives on patients as young as 18-months old, more than a dozen children have died after being sedated by dentists. Apparently, greedy and inadequately trained dentists have been seeking to enhance profits
READ MOREKidCo Inc. of Libertyville, Ill. issued a recall of their Pea Pod Travel Crib after determining that an infant could roll between the bed's air mattress and the tent's fabric sides, raising the danger of suffocation. Associated Press, 11/19/2012
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