State Health Department records show that drug-dependent babies were hospitalized 55 times in 1999, a figure that increased to 672 in 2011.

NPR: Tenn. Hospital Treats Drug-Dependent Babies

Dreyzehner, a medical doctor who practiced both occupational and addiction medicine, ordered all medical centers in the state to report every case of drug-dependent newborns.

NPR: Tenn. Hospital Treats Drug-Dependent Babies

The state estimates that nearly 1, 200 drug-dependent babies have been born in Tennessee in 2010 and 2011, the last two years where data is available.

NPR: Tenn. Hospital Treats Drug-Dependent Babies

Its future is too-heavily dependent on its new bone drug Prolia.

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Pfizer was able to get FDA approval for this drug based on a small trial with patients who were shown to have ALK dependent lung cancer.

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"These findings define a new drug target with wide potential for therapeutic intervention in conditions such as hormonal-dependent cancer, abnormal puberty and control of fertility, " said Dr Samuel Aparicio of Paradigm Therapeutics.

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