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Article: Stronger sleeping-pill warnings ordered; FDA mandates makers clarify side effects, including "sleep-driving" and allergic reactions.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- March 15, 2007
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Byline: LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press
WASHINGTON - All prescription sleeping pills may sometimes cause "sleep-driving," federal health officials warned Wednesday, almost a year after the bizarre side effect first made headlines when Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car after taking Am bien.
It's a more complicated version of sleepwalking, but behind the wheel: getting up in the middle of the night and going for a drive - with no memory of doing so.
The Food and Drug Administration wouldn't say exactly how many cases of sleep-driving it had linked to insomnia drugs, but neurology chief Dr. Russell Katz said the agency uncovered more than a ...