Brooke Mueller Checks Back Into Rehab for Adderall Addiction, Marking Her 19th

Brooke Mueller checks back into rehab for Adderall addiction, marking her 19th

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The troubled ex-wife of Charlie Sheen checked back into rehab Monday night to seek treatment for an addiction to Adderall, a psycho-stimulant drug commonly used for attention deficit disorder (ADD), according to TMZ. This would be the whopping 19th …
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Longer Use Helps Cancer Drug's Effect

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But the drug increases the risk of endometrial cancer, the most common form of uterine cancer. It wasn't known if continuing treatment beyond five years would further reduce death from breast cancer or if any benefits would be overtaken by the risk of …
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Breast cancer treatment linked to osteoporosis – SFGate

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So men taking hormone-blocking drugs – known as androgen-deprivation therapy – for prostate cancer also face the risk of osteoporosis. Men typically get osteoporosis at a much later age than women, but these hormonal therapies fast-forward that chance.
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A Story of AIDS, From the Beginning

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But in 2008, Mr. France wrote a jaw-dropping piece for New York magazine about a promising young doctor named Gabriel Torres, who ran the AIDS ward at St. Vincent's Manhattan Hospital for much of the '90s, then descended into drug addiction shortly …
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