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Ever-enterprising beverage marketers will persuade normally rational people to buy colored sugar water for personal consumption.

LOS ANGELES — The widely used family of acid-reducing drugsthat includes Prilosec, Nexium and Protonix increases the risk ofbone fractures by about 25 percent and can more than double therisk of contracting the troublesome bacterium Clostridiumdifficile, new studies released Monday confirm.

Congressional Democrats are investigating an alleged “phantom recall” by Johnson & Johnson, in which the company hired a contractor to buy up defective painkillers instead of issuing an immediate recall.

Dear Dr. Donohue: What is interstitial cystitis? Is it due to damaged nerves or bacteria in the bladder? How come doctors can’t treat it? It is very painful.

I staggered blindly through the aisles of Happy Harry’s and thought, not for the first time, about the many ways I’d like to wipe that smirk off Harry’s face as payback for not putting the allergy meds up toward the front of the store.

Moody’s Investors Service on Friday lowered its rating outlook on drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. to “negative” from “stable,” due in part to the looming expiration of patents protecting key drugs from generic competition.

Title: Drug Tests Often Trigger False Positives Category: Health News Created: 6/1/2010 11:46:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 6/1/2010 11:46:23 AM

A Bellefontaine woman is among thousands of women suing a drug maker for allegedly causing their breast cancer. Get the details.

Women should be aware that antidepressants, including the SSRIs Paxil (paroxetine) and Zoloft (sertraline), as well as Wellbutrin and Zyban (bupropion), have been linked to serious birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant, and are being treated with one of these drugs, you should talk to your doctor […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 2 (UPI) — Seniors who take a type of antidepressants may have increased risk of developing cataracts, a researcher in Canada suggests.