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Pfizer Recalls 1 Million Birth Control Pills

by DP Nguyen

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Pfizer Recalls 1 Million Birth Control Pills Last Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2012.

Pfizer Inc., the pharmaceutical giant and world’s largest drug maker, is recalling 1 million packs of birth control pills in the United States, because they may not contain enough hormones to be effective enough to prevent pregnancy. The recalled birth control pills include:

  • 14 lots of Lo-Ovral (28 day) Oral tablets
  • 14 lots of Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol (the generic form of Lo-Ovral)

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Study: Congenital Heart Defects Higher in Babies of Overweight Smokers

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Babies

Do you believe in miracles? One family in the UK does. The Morgan family from Kent in the United Kingdom experienced a medical miracle 15-months-ago, when mom Katy Morgan, 36, woke up at 37-and-1/2 weeks pregnant covered in blood. She was rushed to the hospital and gave birth via emergency C-section to a 6 lb. [...]

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Wal-Mart Pulls Enfamil Formula After Baby Dies

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Coffee Protects from Endometrial Cancer, says New Study

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A cup of coffee a day may keep endometrial cancer away, according to a new research study. So, if you love your caffeine, drink up. A large prospective cohort study found that women who drank four or more cups of coffee every day decreased their endometrial cancer risk by 25 percent, compared to their peers [...]

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Autism Study: Premature Babies are 5 Times More Likely to Have Autism

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Guest Post by Chipper Nicodemus. There’s a new 2011 autism study out of the University of Pennsylvania that finds that babies that are underweight and born early (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) are five times more likely to have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The researchers followed over 1,100 children over a period of 20 years. [...]

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Dead Baby Pills in Chinese Market

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People pop pep pills all the time. In the United States, pep pills contain caffeine. But in China, there is a little bit more. According to a documentary filmed by South Korea’s New Daily, Chinese hospitals contract with pharmaceutical companies and sell aborted and stillborn fetuses. The corpses are dried, ground into a fine powder [...]

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