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Parents Frustrated Over Similac Recall Crash Company's Website
Web ReporterThousands of moms are scrambling to find formula to feed their babies after a massive recall of Similac powdered formula. Drugmaker Abbott Laboratories said Wednesday it is recalling millions of containers of its best-selling Similac infant formula...Tags: Chicago, Family, Infants, Puerto Rico, Companies and Corporations
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Similac Infant Formula Recalled Due to Bug Contamination
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Drugmaker Abbott Laboratories said Wednesday it is recalling millions of containers of its best-selling Similac infant formula that may be contaminated with insect parts. The voluntary action affects up to 5 million Similac-brand powder...Tags: Chicago, Infants, KTLA, Puerto Rico, Companies and Corporations
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Kids and career: Walking that line
It's a tough balancing act: finding child care while working full time. Can you leave early to relieve the sitter, or maybe to see your son's soccer game? Parents are constantly trying to be everywhere at once. How can we be proactive parents without...Tags: Travel, Economy, Business and Finance, Employees, Family, Commuting
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FDA urged to pull diet drug from market
Tribune NewspapersThe prescription diet drug sibutramine, sold under the brand name Meridia, should be taken off the market because it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said Wednesday. Those...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Plastic Surgeons, Meridia (drug), Stroke, Europe
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Tylenol Could Soon Require a Prescription
KTLA NewsWASHINGTON -- Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug...Tags: Death, Percocet (drug), Colleges and Universities, Elections, Los Angeles
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New Gadget Fixes Heart-Valve Back-Up
Special to the TribuneWhen Mary Ann Bernal's fatigue and shortness of breath were diagnosed as a leaky mitral valve in her heart, the Niles, Illinois, woman volunteered for a trial at NorthShore Evanston Hospital of a new, less invasive way to treat the debilitating and...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Fatigue, Heart Surgery, Niles, Shortness of Breath
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Consumer Confidential: Weighty pills, empty containers, junky ads
Money & CompanyHere's your thrill-a-minit Thursday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- The consumer group Public Citizen is calling on federal regulators to ban the weight-loss pill Meridia because a recent study links it to an increased risk of...... -
Abbott Labs announces 3-part debt offering
Chicago Breaking BusinessDow Jones Newswires | Abbott Laboratories, which recently has taken steps to buy big parts of Solvay Pharmaceuticals of Belgium and Piramal Healthcare of India, said Monday that it plans to sell a three-part benchmark-size offering of senior unsecured... -
Asthma Sufferers: Find Out Which Inhalers Soon Will Be Forbidden
Los Angeles TimesThe Food and Drug Administration has announced it is taking a long-expected step and phasing out the production and sale of asthma inhalers using chlorofluorocarbons as a propellant. The chlorofluorocarbons, commonly known as CFCs, were once widely...Tags: Air Pollution, Asthma, Los Angeles Times, Health, Forest Laboratories Incorporated
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Obama gives powerful drug lobby a seat at healthcare table
As a candidate for president, Barack Obama lambasted drug companies and the influence they wielded in Washington. He even ran a television ad targeting the industry's chief lobbyist, former Louisiana congressman Billy Tauzin, and the role Tauzin played in...Tags: Medicare, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Entertainment, Heads of State
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, May 2006
Staff reporterOne of the greatest living skeptics, Frederick Crews, applies his sharp analytical mind to such follies as psychoanalysis, intelligent design, and contemporary literary theory. The occasion for this conversation was the publication of his new collection...Tags: Terrorism, Colleges and Universities, Howard Hughes, William Shakespeare, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Heart and stroke patients warned against use of weight-loss drug Meridia
Booster ShotsThe FDA has issued a new warning on the weight-loss drug sibutramine (marketed as Meridia or Reductil), cautioning patients with a history of heart disease or an elevated stroke risk that use of the drug could further boost the likelihood......
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