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  • Infant cold medicines pulled off market

    10/12/2007 3:44:24 AM PDT · by deport · 36 replies · 832+ views
    AP via Yahoo News ^ | 10-12-07 | LAURAN NEERGAARD
    Infant cold medicines pulled off market WASHINGTON - Drug makers pulled cold medicines targeted for babies and toddlers off the market Thursday, leaving parents to find alternatives for hacking coughs and runny little noses just as fall sniffles get in full swing. The move represented a pre-emptive strike by over-the-counter drug manufacturers — a week before government advisers were to debate the medicines' fate. But it doesn't end concern about the safety of these remedies for youngsters. Thursday's withdrawal includes medicines aimed at children under age 2, after the Food and Drug Administration and other health groups reported deaths...
  • Congress poised to pass anti-meth law restricting sale of cold medicines (behind store counters)

    12/09/2005 8:29:21 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 73 replies · 1,119+ views
    ap on San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 12/9/05 | Sam Hananel - ap
    WASHINGTON – Cold remedies that can be used by drug dealers to make methamphetamine would be forced behind store counters under legislation Congress is poised to pass by year's end. Lawmakers hope that federal restrictions – included in the agreement reached Thursday to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act – will stem a meth trade that has hit rural America particularly hard. A number of states have already moved to curb the sale of cold pills containing pseudoephedrine, the ingredient used to cook meth in makeshift labs. The federal law would prevent meth makers from moving to states with weaker laws....