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Public Health Officials Urge FDA to Issue Warnings for Dangerous Combination of Medications Amid Prescription Drug Overdose Crisis

Feb 22nd, 2016

(February 22, 2016)– City and state health directors from across the country today called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt labels to explicitly warn about a dangerous combination of medications that is helping drive the nation’s prescription drug overdose epidemic.

Baltimore, Rhode Island leading petition of FDA for prescription opioid warning labels

Feb 22nd, 2016

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Doctors call for warning on combining painkillers, tranquilizers

Feb 22nd, 2016

At a time of widespread concern over the epidemic of painkiller abuse, a growing number of people are calling for changes in the way that the Food and Drug Administration regulates addictive medica

Doctors call for warning on combining painkillers, tranquilizers

Feb 22nd, 2016

At a time of widespread concern over the epidemic of painkiller abuse, a growing number of people are calling for changes in the way that the Food and Drug Administration regulates addictive medica

Group Formed For Zika Virus Prevention

Feb 22nd, 2016

Health officials in Baltimore have formed a group to combat against the threat being posed by Zika virus.

The low-tech approach to Zika

Feb 22nd, 2016

Even though Zika virus is unlikely

Boston Public Health Commission Urges FDA to Issue Warnings for Dangerous Combination of Medications

Feb 22nd, 2016

Monica Valdes Lupi from the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) has joined city and state health directors from across the country in calling on the U.S.

Doctors petition FDA for 'black box' warning on combining painkillers, tranquilizers

Feb 22nd, 2016

Public health directors from around the nation demanded the FDA label prescription painkillers and sedatives with its strongest warning in a petition delivered to the federal agency Monday.

'Black box' FDA warning urged for opioid and benzodiazepine combo

Feb 22nd, 2016

Public health officials are calling on the U.S.

Health officials push FDA to add ‘black box’ warnings about using opioids, benzodiazepines together

Feb 22nd, 2016

Dozens of public health officials and academics across the country are pushing the Food and Drug Administration to warn people about the potential dangers of taking powerful prescription painkiller

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