WESTLAKE, OH (WOIO) – Christina Melaragno, 41, has been indicted on 20 charges, including trafficking, theft, burglary and drug possession connected to her arrest for stealing pain medication from elderly residents. Westlake Police say the Executive Administrator of the Gardens of Westlake entered the residents’ rooms and stole their medicine.   READ MORE: 19ActionNews.com […]

  (WOIO) – A recent study shows that children of women who used the pain reliever acetaminophen during pregnancy appear to be at higher risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-like behavioral problems and hyperkinetic disorders (HKDs, a severe form of ADHD). This raises the concerns of many due to the fact that acetaminophen, aka Tylenol, is […]

  John Andrew Welden convinced Remee Lee to take antibiotics, which were actually the pills that caused Lee to miscarry her child.   (CNN) — When an elated Remee Lee told her boyfriend she was pregnant, his reaction wasn’t what she was expecting. He wasn’t happy, Lee says. In fact, he begged her to abort. […]

The Department of Education has approved a program that provides morning-after pills or Plan B contraception to students at 13 New York City high schools, reports the New York Post. The Plan B contraception program, Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health (CATCH), was created to combat the epidemic problem of teen pregnancy throughout the city, which […]

PARMA, Ohio - Parma police are looking for a man they said robbed medication from a drug store Thursday morning. The incident happened at approximately 10:55 a.m. at the Walgreens on Rockside Road.

Since the 1960s, women have been afforded the convenience of taking oral contraceptives,but soon it may be men who take the pills. Researchers are getting closer and closer to a viable product — but will it catch on? Many men are hesitant to use current contraceptive methods so this new form may be too foreign […]

http://www.newsnet5.com BEREA, Ohio – Four Roehm Middle School students are accused of selling prescription pills and over the counter medicine to their classmates, and could be kicked out of school. Principal Jason Niedermeyer said the four seventh graders were selling the pills for a dollar or giving them out to other students. Sixteen kids total […]