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BELTSVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) – Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines should not be sold for young children because they are unproven and can be dangerous, doctors and consumer advocates said on Thursday, despite objections from industry representatives.

Experts urged U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials to ban sales of the products, which take in billions of dollars in annual sales and include versions of Wyeth’s Dimetapp and Procter & Gamble Co’s NyQuil, for children, especially those ages 2 to 6.

“Cough and cold medications … have not been proven to be effective and they have clear risks. It is time for them to be reevaluated,” Dr. Wayne Snodgrass of the University of Texas Medical Branch, said at an FDA meeting to discuss whether the nonprescription remedies should be sold for children.

Other medicines include Novartis AG’s Triaminic and Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol and PediaCare, among others.

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Here’s a decent cause if you think media ads can help influencer things:

wecansolveit.org

They are trying to run the ad during prime time and are looking for funding, you can watch the ad on the donation page. Check it out.

“Heavenly Father loves me so much that he gave me the restaurant of McDonald’s.”

–spoken enthusiastically by a little Sunbeam boy in my class

Certain commonly available skin creams may cause skin tumors, at least in mice, and experts should be checking to see if they might cause growths in people as well, researchers reported on Thursday.

The cancers are not melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer, they stressed in their report in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, but another type called squamous cell carcinoma. Such tumors are slow growing, highly treatable and only fatal if patients fail to have them removed. (BUT STILL who wants to grow tumors!?)

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Just one can of the popular stimulant energy drink Red Bull can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, even in young people, Australian medical researchers said on Friday.

One hour after they drank Red Bull, (their blood systems) were no longer normal. They were abnormal like we would expect in a patient with cardiovascular disease,” Scott Willoughby, lead researcher from the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, told the Australian newspaper.

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Lecture time! No more texting while driving! I don’t know how people can do this and feel like everyone around them is safe. I’m sure accidents happen all the time as a result, seeing as how you can hardly watch the road while texting. Anyway, let’s all try to be safer and not do this anymore! Read the article below; multiple local people were seriously injured as a result of someone texting while driving.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=3833972

(The cereals) were distributed nationally under the Malt-O-Meal brand name, as well as private labels including Acme, America’s Choice, Food Club, Giant, Hannaford, Jewel, Laura Lynn, Pathmark, Shaw’s, ShopRite, Tops and Weis Quality. The cereal bags have “best if used by” dates from April 8, 2008 (coded as APR0808), through March 18, 2009 (coded as MAR1809).

The company urges consumers to discard any unused cereal bearing the effected dates. Retailers have been notified to remove affected product from their shelves.

I knew I didn’t like that cereal for a reason… please be aware if you eat any of these brands.

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