Just two weeks ago, as part of the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicade Services published its final rule
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What is DES and Why You Should Care
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Diethylstilbestrol or DES is synthetic estrogen developed in the late 1930s. It was initially approved by the FDA in 1941 for vaginitis
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Over the last couple years, women’s roles in the US military have been expanding. On January 24, 2013, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
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Holy Shit – This Has to Stop
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Cursing in a title, how unprofessional you say. Well, yes it is, but damn it, this has to stop. By now, you
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FDA Approval: The Mighty Drug Label
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In the first two articles for our educational series on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we covered what the FDA
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5 Health and Science Trends to Watch in 2013
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As the New Year beckons several trends that emerged in 2011-2012 are certain to explode in 2013. Here is a look at
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Going off on the off-label trail
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Did you know that your doctor can send you to the pharmacy with a prescription for an antidepressant, with the goal of
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Do You Know What FDA Approved Really Means?
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We all take medicine, either prescription or over the counter (OTC) from the drugstore, but what do most Americans know about their
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