Anesthesia may harm the brains of children under 3, FDA warns; Birth defects are common for Zika-infected pregnant women in the U.S.; James Gilman, retired Army major general, to head troubled NIH clinical center; A severe birth defect linked to Zika quadrupled in Colombia this year; Surgeon general calls youth e-cigarette smoking ‘a major public health concern’;
 
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Anesthesia may harm the brains of children under 3, FDA warns
The Food and Drug Administration directed manufacturers of anesthetics and sedation drugs to add warnings to their labels about the potential negative effects.
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Birth defects are common for Zika-infected pregnant women in the U.S.
Women who had no symptoms of Zika infection were as likely as those with symptoms to have a baby with severe brain damage.
 
James Gilman, retired Army major general, to head troubled NIH clinical center
A career military officer will head NIH's flagship clinical and research facility.
 
A severe birth defect linked to Zika quadrupled in Colombia this year
New report dispels suggestions that the country with second-largest number of Zika infections escaped a wave of fetal abnormalities including microcephaly.
 
Surgeon general calls youth e-cigarette smoking ‘a major public health concern’
A sharp rise in vaping by young people is troubling in part because we don't understand the dangers.
 
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