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• Obama, McCain target working-class voters
Obama also declared he would work to lower the cost of medicine for seniors by allowing the government to directly negotiate prices with drug companies and the reimportation of drugs from other countries, according to prepared remarks of his speech ...
• Living conditions bad but Thai protesters stay put
More than 200 people lined up to get free medicine from makeshift clinics. Elsewhere in the compound, hundreds of people lined up to use mobile toilets while some men relieved themselves in the open amid the pervasive smell.
• Drugs from Biogen, Eli Lilly on FDA review list
A "letter to the editor" published in the New England Journal of Medicine in February mentioned two women who developed melanomas, a type of skin cancer, after taking the drug.
• Protect against dangers of 3 quiet cancers
When such habits were considered unladylike, men with oral cancer outnumbered women 6 to 1, says Sol Silverman Jr., DDS, a professor of oral medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry.
• FDA posts list of potential problem drugs
Don’t stop taking your medicine,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, who heads the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “If your doctor has prescribed a drug that appears on this list, you should continue taking it unless your doctor advises ...