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Lawmakers To Vote on FDA Clout
The Senate could vote as soon as next week on whether to give the Food and Drug Administration broader regulatory authority, including new powers to prevent prescription-drug shortages.
Week in Ideas
In this column: No altruism at sea; catch that yawn, Rover; truth-telling texters; and humorless self-deluders.
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FDA Approves Generic Versions of Plavix
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved generic versions of blood-thinning drug Plavix.
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Lead-Poisoning Threshold for Kids Revised
U.S. health officials halved the minimum threshold for lead poisoning in children younger than 6.
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Zytiga Can Nix Some Prostate Tumors
A study looking at small group of men with prostate cancer showed the use of Johnson & Johnson's Zytiga eliminated or greatly reduced the size of prostate tumors in one-third of patients treated for six months before surgery.
New Bid to Prevent Alzheimer's Early
An Alzheimer's drug will be tested for the first time in a large-scale trial on at-risk people who don't yet show signs of memory loss.
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FDA Panel Backs HIV Home Test
An FDA advisory panel asked the agency to let an HIV test be sold at stores so consumers can get tested for the AIDS virus at home.

Changes Coming to Medicaid
Medicaid is getting a rehab under the Affordable Care Act, including coverage expansion and simplification of the application process.
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Red Tape Hobbles a Harvest of Life-Saving Rice
Matt Ridlley on the lifesaving role of micronutrients and how a dispute over rice is depriving the poor.
For a Nation of Whiners, Therapists Try Tough Love
How do you get someone to stop the constant griping? The answer is simple; Don't listen. Moms, and bosses, are good at this. Now, even therapists are refusing to sit still for chronic complaining.
- Video: Getting People to Stop Whining
Science Reveals Why We Brag So Much
What makes talking about ourselves so irresistible? A study shows what happens in our brain as we prattle on at a party or tweet our thoughts.