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