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  • What Your Patients Are Reading: Long-Term NSAID Use Protective Against Alzheimer's Long-term use of NSAIDs (particularly ibuprofen) may ward off dementia, hypertension is responsible for a large percentage of disease burden worldwide, chocolate may lower the risk for preeclampsia, exclusively breast-fed children are smarter than their classmates, and cosmetic filler injections may cause acute renal failure.
  • Recalls & Warnings Etanercept Gets Black Box Warning for TB Risk Patients should be both screened for latent tuberculosis before initiation of etanercept therapy and monitored for infection during and after treatment.
  • Renal Failure Linked to Cosmetic Soft-Tissue Filler Injections Three cases of renal failure were reported in women who had received cosmetic soft-tissue filler injections by an unlicensed practitioner at a facility in North Carolina.
  • US Congress Votes to Ban Genetic Discrimination A landmark bill to forbid discrimination against people whose genetic information shows a predisposition to certain illnesses won final U.S. congressional approval on Thursday.
 
 
 
 
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