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Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and other state attorneys general called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today to strengthen warnings about the risks of prescription painkiller use during pregnancy.

A Little Rock child is the first in Arkansas to take part in an FDA trial using cord blood stem cells to treat his cerebral palsy.

Dr. Paul Halverson, director and state health officer of the Arkansas Department of Health approved an emergency rule to ban the sale and distribution of phenazepam, sometimes spelled “fenazepam,” a “designer drug” marketed for human consumption, even though the US Food and Drug Administration has not approved its use, according to a release.

There’s a new medical break-through in cancer research. The FDA approved a screening device, the first of its kind, for skin cancer.