FDA Consumer
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Articles in Oct 1987 issue of FDA Consumer
- Dining out with a healthy appetite
- Medicines from the body
by Cheryl Platzman Weinstock - New drug helps hemophiliacs
- Nutrition and the athlete
by Doug Henderson - Laser clears clogged leg arteries
- New hope for those with diverticular disease
by Egon Weck - FDA plans to ban raw milk
- Cracking down on crab pickers
by Cathy Carey - Protecting tots from drug poisonings
by Bill Rados - One patient's experience with interferon
by Roger W. Miller - Some not-so-bad news on caffeine
- Know the right way to take your medicines
by Annabel Hecht - Still a killer: pneumonia targets the ill, the elderly
by Chris W. Lecos - Anti-tamper packaging a growth market
- Rheumatic fever: down but not out
by Evelyn Zamula - Ceramic teapots, pitchers recalled
- Putting the brakes on the baldness-cure bandwagon
by Cathy Carey - 'The pill' may not mix well with other drugs
by Judith Willis - Bone marrow transplants: from Chernobyl to cancer therapy
by Margot Joan Fromer - Treating calluses and corns
- Warming to the idea: heat research may help hearts, kidneys, and man's best friend
by Bill Grigg - Summer food safety tips
by Frank E. Young - Better control of hypertension has reduced stroke deaths
- Researcher disqualified
- Selling high-fiber cereals
- Unsterile IVs
by Cathy Carey - Low-dose rabies vaccine
- Planning a diet for a healthy heart
by Chris W. Lecos - Are your contact lenses as safe as you think?
by Margaret Tolbert - We're spicier
- Out of the bronzed age
by Richard C. Thompson - Measles vaccine doesn't always protect
- Drugs for heart attacks
- New drug against leprosy
- From tainted feed to mothers' milk; a pesticide's devastating journey through the food chain
by Dixie Farley - Aspartame warning for drugs
- Good nutrition for your growing child
by Ellen Hale - Contaminated cosmetics
- First aid for pets
by Dianne McRae - Few teens guarding against AIDS
- The Constitution and the consumer: discovering the connections
by Wallace F. Janssen - A progress report on AIDS research
by Marian Segal - Reuse of kidney dialysis equipment
- Gender Choice a 'gross deception.'
- Stomach 'bubble': diet device not without risks
by Evelyn Zamula - Veterinary export OK'd
- Test-tube skin and other high-tech treatments for burns
by Dixie Farley - MRI devices' sales booming
- Myths and facts of generic drugs
- Fast-tracking the first AIDS drug
by Brad Stone - RX for recurring breast cancer
- Warning on imported drugs
- The digestive discomfort of gas
by Roger W. Miller - Emergencies cost FDA $22 million in '86
- Can herbs really heal?
by Jean M. Auel - Pretty poison: lead and ceramic ware
by Chris W. Lecos - Meeting America's 1990 nutrition goals: we'll need a strong finish
by Marilyn Stephenson - DTP shots: benefit outweighs risk
- Defrauding the desperate: quackery and AIDS
by Marian Segal - Incontinence comes out of the closet
by Dixie Farley - Jury clears dairy in salmonella outbreak
- Why women don't get mammograms
by Judith Willis - Kitty odor product seized; "Scent-Free' would only mask, not cure, infection
by Dixie Farley - Using medical radiation from the inside out
by Josphine Thompson - Harvesting the fruits of biotechnology
by Frank E. Young - Looking for trouble in medical devices
by David W. Stearman - As use of kids' aspirin drops, so do cases of Reye syndrome
by Dori Stehlin - A 'complaint department' for medical devices
by Richard C. Thompson - Rewards for help in tampering case
- Travelers' advisory: malaria still threatens much of globe
by Evelyn Zamula - Experimental drugs for the desperately ill
by Frank E. Young - Crossing paths with a snake
by Ellen Hale - Defective condoms recalled
- For athletes and dealers, black market steroids are risky business
by Dori Stehlin - Laser treatment to go: outpatient uses of healing light abound
by Dixie Farley - Help for slow-growing children
by Marta Vogel - Skull X-ray exams
- Taking a look at eye exams
by Egon Weck - First AIDS drug approved
- Erasing wrinkles: easier said than done
by Dori Stehlin