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2020
November
02,
2020
| 11:12 AM America/Chicago
NBC 5 helped us kick off Epilepsy Awareness Month last night with a feature story about a Cook Children’s patient who’s now three years seizure free thanks to a groundbreaking clinical trial.Miller Queen suffers from a severe and
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2018
September
12,
2018
| 14:07 PM America/Chicago
“Dragon’s Breath. “Heaven’s Breath.” “Nitro puff.” Sounds fun, right? But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent out an alert of the “potential for serious injury from eating, drinking,
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2017
January
30,
2017
| 09:38 AM America/Chicago
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is once again recommending that parents stop the use of homeopathic teething tabs and gels over concerns of adverse events, including seizures, in babies following their use. The FDA's lab found
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2016
December
08,
2016
| 14:19 PM America/Chicago
The U.S. Surgeon General  Food and Drug Administration urged all parents to "take a stand against e-cigarette use by our nation's young people" at a press conference on Thursday, Dec. 8. Dr. Vivek H. Murthy said e-cigarettes
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January
13,
2016
| 15:58 PM America/Chicago
The last few years have seen some major progress in the field of type 1 diabetes care in children and adults alike. Progress becomes especially important in light of recent news that type 1 diabetes is increasing in the U.S. There’s been a
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2014
July
09,
2014
| 16:59 PM America/Chicago
Sunscreen should definitely be applied to your children this summer, just don’t use a spray.That’s the advice from the Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Reports. The FDA has launched an investigation into the potential risks
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