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CDC Report Finds No Connection Between Thimerosal and Autism

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2 Currently, there are 3 FDA-approved seasonal influenza vaccines that contain a concentration of mercury, as evident from January 15, 2025, on the CDC website. The use of the preservative used in FDA-licensed vaccines has significantly declined and were developed into single-dose containers instead of multidose. Goodson, B.,

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Is DTC pharma advertising coming to an end?

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In particular, Sanders called out Eli Lilly for spending $205 million on advertising in 2010 for its antidepressant drug Cymbalta, which brought in $3.2 billion in sales that year, despite the FDA finding the ads “made unsupported and misleading claims of effectiveness and minimized its safety risks.”

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Bring Out Your Meds! Bring Out Your Meds!

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million pounds of medication since 2010. Last April’s Take Back Day collected over 670,000 pounds of unneeded medication at 4,900 collection sites nationwide. DEA has collected over 18.5 More information about National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, including disposal locations, can be found here.

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Pneumococcal Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Increased Among Children Over Last 15 Years

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1 “In Sweden, PCV13 was introduced in the NIP in 2010 but replaced by PCV10 in 2019.” For a greater part of this century, pHUS cases among children have been very rare. Throughout dynamic recommendations for which pneumococcal vaccines are safest and most effective, however, these cases have been on the rise in Sweden’s recent history.

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GRIN Therapeutics: Seeking to address unmet needs in rare neurodevelopmental disorders

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GRIN-NDD was first classified in 2010. For example, last year, the FDA approved a schizophrenia drug with the first new mechanism of action in 70 years, potentially transforming the quality of life for about 24 million people worldwide. Retrieved from [link] 3. GRIN Therapeutics. 2025, March 17). Retrieved from [link] 4.

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Steatosis Liver Disease Shows Increased Risk of Diabetes for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

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The study investigators included patients who developed AF between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018, and were included in the National Health Insurance Service of South Korea. 1 Investigators included a total of 195,195 patients with AD, who had a mean age of 64.4 years and 57.5%

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Obesity-Related Mortality Rose After COVID-19 Pandemic | ADA 2025

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2 “Berrington de Gonzalez et al (2010) studied the association between being overweight and obesity on overall mortality in 1.46 1 “Overweight (BMI 25 kg/m2-29.9 million white adults over a median follow-up period of 10 years. They found an approximately linear relationship in the hazard ratios for BMI.”