Word: antidiarrhea
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...then at least very busy, trying to explain how something so tiny could cause troubles so huge. DON'T DRINK THE WATER, shouted the city's headlines, as thousands of area residents, including the mayor's wife and infant son, contracted a flulike illness that has emptied drugstores of antidiarrhea medications and sent hundreds to hospital emergency rooms. One businessman actually brought water back from Chicago, some 90 miles away. Schools shut off drinking fountains; the Culligan man showed up outside a local TV station to distribute distilled water; and a line formed outside the old Pryor Avenue Iron well...
...Somali nurse dressed in white coat and rubber sandals picks his way through the crowd to weed out the youngest, most desperate cases. Gathering them together in another part of the compound, he feeds each one a spoonful of antidiarrhea medicine from a rusty thermos bottle. Every child under five receives a plastic bracelet, which entitles the wearer to a protein biscuit in addition to a bowl of gruel. The bands are color coded; blue for severely malnourished; red for those on the verge of death...
...dramatic savings for consumers−potentially $1 billion over the next twelve years, according to the FDA. Generic drugs already on the market usually cost much less than their brand-name counterparts. At one Dallas pharmacy last week, customers had to pay $8.79 for 20 tablets of Lomotil, an antidiarrhea pill made by G.D. Searle. But the same amount of medication was available under its generic name, diphenoxylate, for only $3.29. In one New York City drugstore, a medicine for high blood pressure made by Ciba-Geigy called Apresoline cost $15 per 100 tablets; its generic equivalent, hydralazine, went...
...other city in this war. The worst day was May 11, when an estimated 7,000 rounds of artillery, mortar and rocket fire hit an area that can easily be walked across in ten minutes. Said one U.S. adviser: "Those were days when healthy men were taking antidiarrhea tablets to keep from having to go outside. Nature's calls seemed a lot easier to resist...
When NASA's Dr. Charles Berry got on the radio to treat his patients, Berry's tentative diagnosis, at 120,000 miles, the most distant ever made: the 24-hour flu for Borman and milder versions for Lovell and Anders. His prescription: one antidiarrhea pill and one anti-nausea pill for each crew member...
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