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F.D.A. Warns Against Use of Popular Cold Remedy
NYTimes ^ | 6/16/09 | Gardiner Harris

Posted on 06/16/2009 8:54:49 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun

Federal drug regulators warned consumers to stop using Zicam, a popular homeopathic cold remedy, because it could damage or destroy their sense of smell.

The action is an early indication that the Obama administration is likely to take far more aggressive enforcement actions against drug companies than the Bush administration did.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofda; fda; medicine; zicam
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To: warsaw44

Probably was a libtard just saying that....


21 posted on 06/16/2009 9:13:15 PM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: anniegetyourgun
This stuff really works for me too. Thia is a political hit by Gansta boy Obama and his Liberal hacks. They haven't been able to silence Rush through the popular media channels so they are cutting off the balls of his advertisers. We need to counterattack the Leftist media.
22 posted on 06/16/2009 9:13:24 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: libh8er
I am a very happy Zicam customer, thanks to Rush. And I can still smell liberals from a mile away.


23 posted on 06/16/2009 9:13:34 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: anniegetyourgun

If you kill your sense of smell, from the research I have read, you will loose a massive amount of weight.

New market?


24 posted on 06/16/2009 9:14:16 PM PDT by dila813
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To: anniegetyourgun; Grampa Dave; Dog Gone; hedgetrimmer; forester; BOBTHENAILER
"the Obama administration is likely to take far more aggressive enforcement actions against drug companies"

That ain't gonna be the only industry targeted for agressive totalitarian regulatory enforsement action!!!

25 posted on 06/16/2009 9:16:44 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Galloping suffocating American Socialism stinks like BO!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

It’s amazing how jaded we’ve all become given this administration. Even though Zicam is no longer advertising (that I’m aware of) on Rush, it’s (at a minimum) a shot across the bow.


26 posted on 06/16/2009 9:16:59 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: bgill

Thank Nancy Pelosi for that switch. She pushed through a law under darkness of light to ban pseudomenaphrines (sp) so now we all must sign are name and address on a list if we try to by what we used to buy over the counter.


27 posted on 06/16/2009 9:17:17 PM PDT by mojo114
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To: bgill

And they pulled the original dimetapp, which millions had used safely, and left drugs known to cause hypertension in it’s place.


28 posted on 06/16/2009 9:18:36 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: anniegetyourgun

Next the Obama administration will declare that Sleep Number Beds cause cancer.


29 posted on 06/16/2009 9:19:53 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: SierraWasp
Rush is a marked man!!!

Motivation to go after Zicam.

30 posted on 06/16/2009 9:19:55 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism And Pretty Good At That Radio Thingy)
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To: PhiloBedo
I think the original report was about the nasal spray bottles.
31 posted on 06/16/2009 9:23:10 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: anniegetyourgun

The very same thought I had. They will keep going after any product Rush has endorsed. It is becoming a war they will lose. If the silent majority gets involved, its over.


32 posted on 06/16/2009 9:24:18 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: PhiloBedo

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526643,00.html


33 posted on 06/16/2009 9:24:30 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: anniegetyourgun

Evidence of a defacto “Limbaugh Factor”...???


34 posted on 06/16/2009 9:27:38 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts....)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Are they sure that the Zicam is causing the loss of smell? I had hayfever for quite a few years. Still had my smell—it may have been diminished somewhat. I’m not a big one for taking pills or other medicine so I’ve never tried Zicam. In 2002, I got a doozey of a cold in the early summer. It affected my smell. I couldn’t smell anything for the longest time (years after the cold ended). It has come back somewhat, but it is still diminished and slightly off. Things don’t smell like they used to. The only way I can describe it is that it’s like a radio not being quite tuned in to the station that you want. At times I will also smell phantom odors.


35 posted on 06/16/2009 9:28:22 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: anniegetyourgun
An insidious "Fairness Doctrine"?

This started a few years ago. Here's some info from a site called Urban Legends.

It's an uncommon problem . . . "Uncommon" is an accurate characterization of the problem, of which there have been several hundred cases reported out of an estimated "tens of millions" of doses administered. Clearly, the vast majority of Zicam users have suffered no ill effects. As of 2004, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration acknowledged investigating some consumer complaints against Zicam . . . in the absence of published clinical trials specifically addressing the issue, there is no definitive answer to this question. Yet.

Links to the FDA showed no info on clinical trials (that I found) -- just a vague reference.

"FDA’s concerns about reported adverse events of anosmia are heightened by published scientific literature that provides evidence supporting the connection between intranasal zinc and anosmia."

Can Matrixx keep selling those "tens of millions of doses" (with a warning ) if they promise not to sponsor conservative talk radio? Just wondering.

A warning? Yes. One user who suffered reported: "Immediately I had an intense, horrible burning in my nasal/sinus passages. The skin on my face hurt to touch and I had pain and burning so that it hurt to move my head."

One may be one of the few hundred.. try a tiny bit first? Maybe.

36 posted on 06/16/2009 9:33:55 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: anniegetyourgun; FlingWingFlyer; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; LucyT; Yaelle; Liz; nysuperdoodle; ...
I heard this story from another source. My first reaction was similar to yours. Since the product has seemingly been used safely for a number of years, there is a chance that this is a politically motivated action directed at Rush Limbaugh's show and one of his main sponsors, meant to discourage advertising on his show as reprisal for his criticism of the Anointed One. If so, it wouldn't be the first time that ‘Rat administrations have abused the powers of the federal government to punish “right-wing” dissidents.
37 posted on 06/16/2009 9:35:33 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: anniegetyourgun

See #13, above...


38 posted on 06/16/2009 9:35:51 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Galloping suffocating American Socialism stinks like BO!!!)
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To: beaversmom
Are they sure that Zicam is causing the loss of smell?

Difficult to tell, since the cold symptoms it is meant to treat can be associated with a loss of smell as well. Then too, one's sense of smell can't be measured as easily as say, vision or hearing.

39 posted on 06/16/2009 9:42:14 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: eyedigress
RE: "They will keep going after any product Rush has endorsed. It is becoming a war they will lose."

If these shenanigans are actually going on -- and there are questions about Chrysler and GM franchise cancellations -- it points up a fear I have. A fear of the "it all counts toward 30" government employees.

These things cannot happen without Obammunists influence on civil servants. Will enough civil servants risk their careers -- and lives? -- to expose these traitors (no other word for it).

Not only are the Obammunists from the "Chicago school" they are also 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street rabble and the ideological issue of same.

40 posted on 06/16/2009 10:17:21 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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