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...Association. Yet many serious overdoses (and deaths) occur in elderly patients or others who cannot handle the typical amount of a drug, who do not know that they are allergic to it, or who inadvertently create toxic combinations by taking different drugs concurrently. The FDA's proposed "MedGuides" would alert people to such common hazards as taking the allergy medicine Seldane with the antibiotic erythromycin, or from simultaneously taking digitalis and the heart medicine Cardizem. Opponents of the bill say doctors, drug companies and pharmacists can monitor the hazards adequately without new regulations. "Most people are certainly already aware...
...city suffered through its fourth water alert in 12 months, the mayor tried to calm the populace by calling a press conference. With cameras whirring, Marion Barry dramatically held up a liquid that residents had earlier been warned by health authorities might kill the tropical fish in their aquariums, took a lip-smacking gulp and pronounced it "D.C.'s finest." Citizens were, of course, happy to see that the mayor was drinking nothing stronger than water, but wondered what could be impairing his judgment so severely that he blamed the media and his very own health commissioner for the water...
...climactic upheavals that can be expected from the global warming caused by the continued buildup of CO2 and the other so-called greenhouse gases? Scientists are still not sure. But one of the effects of the unusual stretch of weather over the past 15 years has been to alert researchers to a new and perhaps even more immediate threat of the warming trend: the rapid spread of disease-bearing bugs and pests...
...ANGELES: Hoping to gain prestige from Ronald Reagan's mantle, Bob Dole met with the former president at his California home Wednesday. Dole spoke with Reagan, who suffers from Alzheimers disease, for 40 minutes and the former president was later described as alert, if a little subdued. Stressing the importance of this meeting, TIME's Barrett Seaman says it is critical for Dole to capture as much of the Reagan mystique as possible. "Reagan represents getting people together," says Seamen. "That is something Republicans have lost control of since 1992. When Reagan last spoke publicly at the 1992 convention...
Lebed went on to claim that a group of top generals, some of those Grachev had called "my creatures," had hurried to the Ministry of Defense to encourage Grachev to stay on and persuade him to put troops on alert to "bring pressure on the President." Said Lebed: "I took measures of my own. I told the Ministry not to send Grachev's directives to the troops. Then I visited the headquarters of the Moscow military districts, where I met very decent people." According to defense analyst Vitali Shlykov, "Official cars kept rushing between the Ministry and the dachas...