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Suicides Up in San Diego County
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- Written by County of San Diego Communications County of San Diego Communications
- Category: News News
- Published: 15 September 2018 15 September 2018
San Diego, California - After three years of holding steady, the number and rate of people who killed themselves in San Diego County went up in 2017.
Infant Deaths Decline in San Diego
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- Written by José A. Álvarez José A. Álvarez
- Category: Health News Health News
- Published: 15 September 2018 15 September 2018
San Diego, California - The infant mortality rate in San Diego County has declined in the last 16 years and is now lower than it is in the state and the nation.
Del Mar Fairgrounds Honored for Sheltering Animals in Disasters
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- Written by Yvette Urrea Moe Yvette Urrea Moe
- Category: San Diego News San Diego News
- Published: 15 September 2018 15 September 2018
San Diego, California - In a local emergency, the County has turned more than once to the Del Mar Fairgrounds as a regional shelter partner and a large animal shelter and in turn they have provided critical community support. Most recently in the 2017 Lilac Fire, the fairgrounds staff and volunteers cared for and sheltered hundreds of horses.
FDA provides update on its ongoing investigation into valsartan products
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- Written by Jeremy Kahn Jeremy Kahn
- Category: Health News Health News
- Published: 15 September 2018 15 September 2018
Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is updating the public on the agency’s ongoing investigation surrounding the recent voluntary recall of several drug products containing the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) valsartan, used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure.
Presidential Proclamation on National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week
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- Written by White House White House
- Category: National News National News
- Published: 15 September 2018 15 September 2018
Washington, DC - Presidential Proclamation on National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week:
FDA approves new kind of treatment for hairy cell leukemia
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- Written by SDNC SDNC
- Category: Health News Health News
- Published: 14 September 2018 14 September 2018
Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lumoxiti (moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk) injection for intravenous use for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory hairy cell leukemia (HCL) who have received at least two prior systemic therapies, including treatment with a purine nucleoside analog. Lumoxiti is a CD22-directed cytotoxin and is the first of this type of treatment for patients with HCL.