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Halloween is exciting and fun for children, but sometimes hectic for parents who worry about who their children are with. Oregon State Police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) urge parents and guardians to consider the …

Cyclists are invited to attend the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s Scenic Bikeway Committee meeting on October 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the department’s office in the North Mall Office building, 725 Summer St. NE, Suite C, …

Namenda-IR for Alzheimer’s, manufactured by Forest Laboratories, is a popular medication that will be going off patent in April 2015, and more than ten generic versions of the drug will be entering the market at that time. The new generic formulation, …

Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury and death for children ages 1 to 14 years. Here are things you can do to make your pool and spa area safe. Install a Complete Gated Enclosure Around Your Pool …

A quarter century after helping to stage protests pressuring the FDA into speeding up the approval of experimental drugs for patients dying of AIDS, Yale University program director Greg Gonsalves now travels to Washington to defend the FDA from growing …

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a ban on the manufacture and sale of mobile infant walkers because of the risk of injury and death from their use. Over three million baby walkers are sold in the United States annually, …

In 2012, a study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School found that 48 percent of 150,000 women in their 50s, 60s, and 70s using statin drugs to lower cholesterol were more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than …

Researchers have recently reported increased prescription drug safety issues since 1992, when the Prescription Drug User Fee Act was implemented. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) was designed to accelerate the drug approval process at the Food and Drug …