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• Weirton Residents Injured in PA Car Accident

  Staff Writer | September 17, 2006 11:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Two residents of Weirton were injured Friday when the car they were in slid off the road and hit a tree stump. Authorities say Thomas R. McClelland was speeding when he tried to make a left turn while traveling on Route 18 in Hanover Township, PA. He was taken to the hospital and listed in fair condition at last report. The passenger in McClelland's car was treated and released. Neither was...

• Antibiotics Linked to Tendon Rupture

  Staff Writer | September 06, 2006 11:02 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  In late August the consumer watchdog group petitioned the FDA to place stronger warnings about the possibility of tendon rupture on the labels of the Fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics. The drug makers say that they do in fact warn of tendon rupture, but Public Citizen argues the warnings a buried in a list of adverse events and calls for a "black box" warning - the FDA's strongest warning for...