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The months of recalls and warnings surrounding popular prescription painkillers have done more than frighten consumers, batter drug makers’ bottom lines and raise questions about the procedures and criteria by which the Food and Drug Administration approves medications. The fact that so many legal drugs pose serious health risks is …

CHICAGO – A steady stream of the faithful and the curious, many carrying flowers and candles, have flocked to an expressway underpass for a view of a yellow and white stain on a concrete wall that some believe is an image of the Virgin Mary (search). “We believe it’s a …

More oversight is needed to ensure that research using stem cells (search) culled from human embryos (search) is done under strict ethical standards, a government advisory group said Tuesday in proposing national guidelines for the controversial field. Strict limits on taxpayer-funded research using human embryonic stem cells means most of …