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November 20, 2014

FDA Panel Rejects Lilly Pancreatic-Enzyme Replacement

A Food and Drug Administration panel rejected a new type of pancreatic-enzyme replacement product developed by an Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) unit on concerns the drug isn't effective

November 20, 2014

Nurse Fights to Regain License After Having Sex With Patient

An Oklahoma nurse is fighting back after the state’s nursing board barred her from her profession for 20 years for having sex with her married, terminally-ill hospice patient

November 20, 2014

FDA Warns of Liver Damage Reports With New Heart Drug

Federal health officials are warning doctors and patients that a recently-launched heart drug from Sanofi-Aventis SA has been linked to liver damage in a handful of patients

November 20, 2014

New Hope for Hepatitis C, an Often Hidden Disease

There's new hope for an overlooked epidemic: Two powerful drugs are nearing the market that promise to help cure many more people of liver-attacking hepatitis C — even though most who have the simmering infection don't know it yet

November 20, 2014

Cancer Costs to Rise to $158 Billion in 2020

The cost of treating cancer in the United States will rise 27 percent to at least $158 billion by 2020, assuming treatment costs and survival rates remain stable

November 20, 2014

New York Family Sues Neighbor for $2 Million Over Secondhand Smoke

An Upper East Side cigar smoker said he's done everything to appease the family next door that insists he's generating so much secondhand smoke that it's seeping into their apartment and making life difficult

November 20, 2014

WHO Over-Extended, Not Performing Well Enough

The World Health Organization is not performing well enough across the board because it is over-extended and needs to trim the scope of its operations, according to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan

November 20, 2014

Device Treatment May Silence Ringing in the Ears

A new treatment that retrains part of the brain that processes sound may help silence tinnitus — a ringing in the ears that afflicts 10 percent of senior citizens and more than 40 percent of military veterans

November 20, 2014

New Yorkers Pay $800 an Ounce for Libido-Boosting Worms

It's a stiff price to pay for a fungus-encrusted silkworm. But New Yorkers are gladly shelling out $800 an ounce for these dried dead bodies — and the sexual prowess they promise

November 20, 2014

GSK Malaria Vaccine Shows Long-Lasting Protection

An experimental malaria vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline provides African children with long-lasting protection, though its effectiveness declines slightly over time