Children's Tylenol recalled, labels could lead to overdosing
The Associated Press
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. -- The maker of Tylenol said Friday it is voluntarily recalling several children's products because label information may be confusing and could lead to overdosing. McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals said it is recalling all lots and all flavors of 80-milligram Children's Tylenol Meltaways packaged in bottles and blisters.
Consumption of Soft Drinks And High-Fructose
Corn Syrup Linked To Obesity and Diabetes
News Target
New research published in the United States that followed 50,000 U.S. nurses reveals those who drank just one serving of soda or fruit punch a day gained weight more quickly than those who drank less than one soda a month. Those who drank more also had an 80% increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. This risk, by the way, was associated with those who drank drinks sweetened with either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.
High Fructose Corn Syrup Obesity Link
San Francisco Chronicle
An overweight America may be fixated on fat and obsessed with carbs, but nutritionists say the real problem is much sweeter -- we're awash in sugar. Not just any sugar, but high fructose corn syrup. The country eats more sweetener made from corn than from sugarcane or beets, gulping it down in drinks as well as in frozen food and baked goods. Even ketchup is laced with it.
CDC clarifies link between overweight, obesity and deaths
Food Consumer
Government research reports on overweight, obesity and deaths are not consistent, which may have not only caused confusion, but potentially misled many people.
FDA Investigates Vision Side Effects
of Viagra and Other Medications
About.com
Some medical journal articles have indicated that Viagra and other medications for treating erectile dysfunction in men could in very rare cases cause blockage of blood flow to the optic nerve in the inner back of the eye, which could lead to blindness. News reports in late May 2005 indicate that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration now is investigating about 50 different reports of blindness that may be linked to medications such as Viagra (Pfizer), Cialis (Eli Lilly & Co. and ICOS Corp.), and Levitra (Bayer Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline).
With Vioxx gone, pain drug prices jump
Prescription medications rise as
much as 15 percent, study finds
MSNBC Health
WASHINGTON - Prices for dozens of prescription painkillers have jumped by as much as 15 percent since Merck & Co. Inc. pulled its once-popular arthritis drug Vioxx from the market last year, a report released Thursday found. Thirty-six pain medicines, including Mobic, Motrin and Relafen, saw price increases after studies linked Vioxx to heart problems and led to its withdrawal in September, according to the Consumers Union publication, “Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs.”
Court: Pharmacists Can Be Liable for Drugs
ABC News
MIAMI -- A Florida appeals court has ruled for the first time that pharmacists can be held liable for failing to warn about risks associated with use of drugs repeatedly or in harmful combinations, even if they are filling a doctor's prescriptions. The 4th District Court of Appeal, reversing a state circuit court's ruling, decided this week that Robert Powers can pursue claims of negligence against two pharmacies Your Druggist and The Medicine Shoppe that filled his wife Gail's prescriptions for neck and back pain. She died of an overdose.
Babies at risk with high-voltage cancer link
Sydney Morning Herald
People who lived near high-voltage power lines as babies are almost twice as likely as others to develop leukaemia during childhood, according to the largest study conducted into the long-standing question.
Hospitals Cut Patient Complications
RedNova
TRENTON, N.J. -- Not one patient on a ventilator at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center has developed pneumonia in the past 13 months, even though there is typically a case of pneumonia every week at busy hospital intense care units.
Steps To Help Baby During Birth Do Help -- Study
Reuters
NEW YORK -- When a baby appears to be in distress during labor, nurses and doctors use several techniques intended to improve the baby's oxygen level. Now, researchers have shown that three commonly used measures do indeed work. As reported in the medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, these techniques involve giving the mother a liter of IV fluid, placing her on her side, and administering oxygen with a face mask.
About one-fourth of infants who are violently
shaken by an abuser will die from brain damage
News-Medical.Net
About one-fourth of infants who are violently shaken by an abuser will die from brain damage. Three-fourths of these infants will literally have the retinas of their eyes torn away from the back of the eye wall from the force of the motion. These shocking results are part of an internal survey conducted at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and are no surprise to the survey's author, Chris Greeley, M.D., assistant professor of Pediatrics and medical director of the VCH Child Abuse and Neglect Program.
