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AURORA, Colo. – Doctors say the early stages of pregnancy are an especially bad time for a pharmacological mix-up where a woman prescribed antibiotics instead is given a powerful drug used in chemotherapy. Yet a pharmacist at a Colorado Safeway supermarket mistakenly gave Mareena Silva, who is...

GlaxoSmithKline says it has updated the labeling of its diabetes pill Avandia to include safety restrictions ordered by federal health authorities because of the drug's links to heart attack. The Food and Drug Administration announced the changes in September as the latest safety action...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/26/bc-record-ketamine-bust.html This shipping container was supposed to contain boxes of coffee mugs but also had more than 1,000 kilos of the drug ketamine, police say. The Canadian Border Services Agency and the RCMP in B.C. have made...

An alleged prescription drug trafficking ring in Saskatchewan has spread to Manitoba. Mounties have issued a warrant for a Manitoba man — 78-year-old Henry Ironstand of Valley River First Nation. Two other warrants have been issued for Dean Elder, 50, of Yorkton, Sask., and Brent Woloschuk...

ATLANTA – The wife of rapper T.I. is no longer facing charges for possession of ecstasy after she finished a drug diversion program. Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, said Thursday that the charge was dismissed after Tameka "Tiny" Cottle finished...

PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic.- Antinarcotics (DNCD) agents arrested two Canadians in the local airport as they were about to board a Thursday night flight back to their country with eight kilos of cocaine. Yves Debois, 46, and Christian Rioux, 28, each had more than 300 bags weighing 7.93...

- The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011? Let's start next door, with Mexico. From the Dallas Morning News, January 1: "Mexico's drug violence in 2010 was striking not only for its scale but also for its...

Guatemala National Civil Police patrol the streets in Coban, Alta Verapaz department, north of Guatemala City. Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening...

The controversial drug Avastin should be phased out as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday, citing recent studies that show its benefits may be outweighed by dangerous side effects. However, patients currently taking Avastin as part of their...

Police officers guard a road blockade in Morelia during a shootout between police and drug cartel members. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/09/ctw.romo.mexico.fact.fiction.cnn A top drug lord has been gunned down in Mexico after two days of shootouts between armed forces and...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/11/26/exp.nr.ca.drug.tunnel.redo.cnn Agents explore inside of drug tunnel http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/11/27/dnt.ca.drug.tunnel.KFMB The discovery of a "sophisticated" tunnel between a Mexican eat-in kitchen and two Southern California...

Nigerian authorities said Friday they had seized 130 kilograms (286 pounds) of high-grade heroin in a shipment that originated in Iran. The drugs were hidden inside auto parts and were discovered because of intelligence reports from foreign collaborators, the National Drug Law Enforcement...

By Marilynn Marchione, The Associated Press CHICAGO - An experimental Merck drug safely boosted good cholesterol to record highs while dropping bad cholesterol to unprecedented lows in a study that stunned researchers and renewed hopes for an entirely new way of lowering heart risks. "We are...

Authorities say Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillan ran one of Mexico's top drug-trafficking organizations. A top leader of the Gulf drug cartel was killed during a two-hour gun battle with Mexican security forces in the border city of Matamoros, authorities said. Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas...

TEGUCIGALPA - Gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a neighborhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14, authorities said Saturday. "There are 14 dead. Ten were killed on the field and four more died on their way to the hospital," Leonel Sauceda, a spokesman for...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/29/chance.afghan.russia.drug.raid.cnn Moscow, Russia -- Russia's joint operation with the United States to destroy Afghan drugs laboratories marks the first time it has deployed security forces in the region since the Soviet military withdrew in 1989...

Washington -- Almost $56 million worth of high-quality heroin has been seized in a series of drug busts in Afghanistan, according to senior Drug Enforcement Administration officials. The operation in Nangarhar Province was jointly conducted by the DEA, the Department of Defense, NATO, the...

Mexico City, Mexico -- Mexican officials have identified 13 people killed Sunday night in a Tijuana drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency said Monday. Four heavily armed men stormed into the Centro de Rehabilitacion El Camino and opened fire, the Notimex news agency said. The...

Washington -- Authorities have arrested two Georgetown University students and another person in connection with a suspected drug lab found inside a dormitory Saturday morning, the Metropolitan Police Department said. The three males, each at least 18, face charges of possession of drug...

Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders said Sunday she supports legalizing marijuana. The trend-setting state of California is voting next month on a ballot initiative to legalize pot, also known as Proposition 19. The measure would legalize recreational use in the state, though federal...