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New York Times Health News: 02-17-2005
Doctors mistakenly advise women in labor to delay a common pain treatment for fear that it will impede contractions and lead to a Caesarean section, researchers report.
Congress, governors and the secretary of health and human services began negotiations on the future of Medicaid, hoping to control the program's costs.
An experimental treatment tripled the survival rate of men with advanced prostate cancer in a clinical trial, doctors said yesterday, a result they said represents perhaps the first significant success for therapies known as cancer vaccines.
Hundreds of lawsuits filed against Merck, blaming its painkiller Vioxx for deaths and injuries, will be consolidated in a federal court in New Orleans.
By Reuters.
Lawyers for thousands of people who contend that they were harmed by the diet drug combination fen-phen said yesterday that they would reject a comprehensive settlement offer from Wyeth. But the company said there was a "substantial show of interest" in the deal.
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