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China suspends sale and use of herbal injection after adverse reactions lead to 3 deaths
Associated Press WriterBEIJING (AP) _ China has suspended the sale and use of an injectable herbal remedy after six people suffered adverse reactions, including three who died. The State Food and Drug Administration said in a notice posted late Wednesday that the six...Tags: Health Organizations, Pharmaceuticals, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Medicine
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Campaign Comedy: Wednesday's late-night TV wrap-up
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ Shooting a donkey, debating a tree stump and checking out Mexico from across the Arizona border were just some of the ways comedians suggested Sarah Palin was preparing for the vice presidential debate. David Letterman devoted his top...Tags: General Electric Company, Joe Biden, CBS Corp., Walt Disney Co., Alaska
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Debate prep gives shows laugh lines
The Associated PressShooting a donkey, debating a tree stump and checking out Mexico from across the Arizona border were just some of the ways comedians suggested Sarah Palin was preparing for the vice-presidential debate. David Letterman devoted his Top 10 on Wednesday...Tags: Joe Biden, CBS Corp., Alaska, Sarah Palin, Stephen Colbert
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Anxiety disorder leaves parts of life in limbo for author Samantha Schutz
Special to The TimesIn the last few years, whenever I tried to talk about my experiences with an anxiety disorder, I ran into the same problem. I couldn't describe myself as having an anxiety disorder because I'd gone months without having a panic attack. And I couldn't...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Illnesses, Mental Illness, Medicine
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Ex-suspects want police to pay for dead marijuana plants
Special to The TimesWhen the Fort Collins police arrested James and Lisa Masters and carted away their 39 marijuana plants, they put the plants where they normally put confiscated property involved in alleged crimes: the evidence room. And there they sat, without a grow...Tags: Law Enforcement, Police, Justice System, Lawyers, Prosecution
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Members sought
The Community Advisory Council to the Board of Education is seeking at-large members for the 2008-2009 school year. The panel of residents and representatives from PTAs advises the elected school board, sponsors educational programming for members and...Tags: Ellicott City, Montpelier, Medicine
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Tai Sophia Institute planning open house
Tai Sophia Institute, 7750 Montpelier Road, North Laurel, will offer an open house for its graduate programs in acupuncture, herbal medicine and applied healing arts from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Visitors can meet faculty, students and graduates...Tags: Further Education, Montpelier, Medicine
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Free classes
Tai Sophia Institute, 7750 Montpelier Road, North Laurel, will offer a week of introductory classes in t'ai chi chih; qi gong: Dance of the Phoenix; Chakra Energy Balancing; Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement; Yoga and Meditation; and other classes...Tags: Montpelier, Medicine
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Advocates give away condoms and reach out in different languages to prevent HIV/AIDS
South Florida Sun-SentinelAIDS disproportionately affects minorities. African Americans account for nearly half of all AIDS and HIV cases in the United States; Hispanics make up nearly one of every six cases. Today through Sunday, HIV/AIDS professionals from across the country...Tags: Georgia, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities, Culture, Government Health Care
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Sick of skinny actresses? Blame the tank top
Los Angeles TimesHere's a news flash -- young actresses these days are very, very thin. Reporting live from in front of their television sets, the editors of Entertainment Weekly and Us Weekly are shocked, shocked to discover that several female members of the cast of...Tags: Linda Hamilton, Illnesses, Holly Hunter, Courteney Cox, Katherine Heigl
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Businessman selling 'sexual enhancement' sentenced to 25 years
From the Associated PressA business owner convicted of defrauding customers seeking male sexual enhancement products and a variety of herbal supplements was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison. Steve Warshak, 42, founder of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, also was ordered...Tags: Fraud, Punishment, Trials, Prisons, Corporate Crime
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Snake oil, poison, or both?
Special to The Morning CallWhen I read about the founder of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals being sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers with dubious herbal remedies, I asked myself yet again: Why doesn't the government regulate this stuff? Unlike conventional...Tags: American Medical Association, National Government, Punishment, Litigation and Regulation, Health Treatments
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