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Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness. NOTE: All AFD blogs are written by a human - any mistakes are solely mine.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Narrow Margin - Revisited

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Photo Credit – Wikipedia # 9427 Earlier this year the FDA imposed long awaited new limits on the amount of acetaminophen ( ...

Saturday, October 05, 2013

The Perils Of Not Knowing Your Dose

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Photo Credit – Wikipedia # 7837 Twice last year (see The Narrow Margin & Too Much Of A Good Thing ) we looked at ...

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Kids, Colds, And OTC Meds

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# 5878 With cold and flu season on the way, this is probably a good time to remind my readers that the CDC and the FDA co...

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Poll: Despite FDA Warning Parents Use OTC Cold Remedies For Kids Under 2

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# 5319 In January of 2008 the FDA issued a warning to parents that OTC ( over-the-counter ) cough and cold remedies were ...

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

JAMA: Inconsistent Dosing Instructions For OTC Meds

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# 5104 Imagine you purchase a bottle of liquid medicine and the instructions on the box tell you to take 2 tablespoons (3...

Monday, August 30, 2010

Inappropriate Use Of OTC Medicines In Children

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# 4850 From the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s (FIP) conference in Lisbon , Portugal (Aug 28th-Sept 2nd)...

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