"This is the first time that an oral diabetic medicine has been shown to have this benefit in a prospective study, " said John Dormandy , of St.

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The statement said the merger might reduce the hospitals' incentives to improve the quality of specialist services, which include rheumatology, rehabilitation, general medicine, general surgery, geriatric medicine, dermatology, clinical haematology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, cardiology and palliative medicine.

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She was prescribed an oral insulin medication -- a medicine that is no longer given to adolescents due to harmful side effects.

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D, the FDA official who first linked oral bisphosphonates to esophageal cancer in a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, says that the new study alone does not put the issue to rest.

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