When Spine Implants Cause Paralysis, Who Is to Blame?

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Rick Greenwood checked in for an overnight stay at a Dallas hospital two years ago to have a spinal-cord stimulator implanted in his back. The surgery was meant to relieve the back pain that had troubled him for more than 40 years, but when he left the …
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Heroin use, addiction increasing

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George Comiskey with the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery said when it comes to heroin users, the area in which they live plays a large part in student involvement with drugs. “Heroin, along with many others, is a regional type of drug …
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Use of antipsychotics soaring at Ontario nursing homes

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When antipsychotics are prescribed to seniors with dementia, it's known as “off-label” use, meaning a drug is being used for a condition or age group for which it hasn't been approved. It's legal for doctors to do this, and they do so with little …
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TNT's Dallas midseason finale sets Southfork — not series — on fire

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On Dallas, even the characters held over from the Reagan years now are just vague facsimiles of the complicated Ewings we used to know. And the new kids — John Ross, … Drug cartels overthrowing the Mexican government. Arctic oil leases up for grabs.
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