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Prescription Sleeping Pill Use Tied to Cancer
September 2nd, 2008
The next time you consider popping a pill when you have trouble nodding off, it might be worth counting sheep instead. A senior psychiatrist at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in San Diego, Calif. has found evidence that taking sleeping pills regularly can increase the risk of skin cancer. Daniel F. Kripke, M.D.'s article, based on a compilation of studies involving sleeping pills and cancer, has just been published in the Journal of Sleep Research. It appears with an editorial authored by Dr. Gary D. Friedman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University's School of Medicine and adjunct investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program who has vast experience in...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-09-02)
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