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26, 2006 'Pill for every ill' creates new risks Minnesota lawmakers seek disclosure of trials for FDA-approved drugs BY JEREMY OLSON Pioneer Press America is manic about medication.

Initial hype and hope over the promise of new prescription drugs can turn to outrage and lawsuits when risks are revealed.

Certain painkillers cause heart problems.

An impotency drug is linked to vision loss.

Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide.

A Parkinson's drug seems to encourage compulsive gambling.

And a sleep aid can cause sleep eating.

In some cases, these rare risks are known but buried in the packaging.

In others, the risks don't come out until the drugs are broadly used in the marketplace.

Or drug companies withhold evidence of risks.

Minnesota lawmakers on Tuesday proposed one solution: a state law that would require drug-makers to publicly disclose results of clinical trials conducted before and after drugs are federally approved for sale.

Will more information make a difference in a harried environment in which patients seek quick-fix pills, doctors are eager to prescribe and pharmacists don't tell patients the pros and cons?

"As a society, we have this mentality of a pill for ...

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Sigler's talk, "Wise Girl: What I Learned About Life, Love and Loss," begins at 7 p.m.

in the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium.

The talk is free, and no tickets or reservations are required.

Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

The lecture will include a question-and-answer session and will be followed by a book-signing.

For more information, call Jennifer Perusek, chairwoman of the University Lectures Committee, at 651-962-6136.

Send Washington County events to Nick Ferraro, 345 Cedar St., St.

Paul, MN 55101, fax to 651-228-5500 or e-mail nferraro@pioneer press.com.

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