'Special report: Prescription medicines (Independent)Each year, Britons are dying in their thousands because of the side effects of prescription and over-the-counter medicines. Reported deaths are up 155 per cent in a decade ? and experts are seeking new safeguards.
'MLB's Byrd Says He Took HGH by Doctor's Prescription (Correct) (Bloomberg.com)(Corrects year baseball banned hormone, in sixth paragraph.) Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd said he did nothing wrong by taking human growth hormone that was prescribed by a doctor to treat a medical condition.