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Fortitude and Pandemonium However the pandemic plays out, the chief mantra for everyone - wash your hands, cough into the crook of your elbow rather than your palms, stay home if you're sick - will be repeated endlessly over the coming months in ad campaigns, public-service announcements and the global media. A certain fortitude is required of the global population as well. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals in the U.S. were overwhelmed by crowds, including large numbers of the so-called worried well, who, when they showed up en masse, had the ability to delay services...
...chief mantra for everyone - wash your hands, cough into your sleeve, stay home if you're sick - will be repeated endlessly over the coming months in ad campaigns, public-service announcements and the media. For instance, the current advice for healthy people who get a fever and cough without other serious complications, such as an inability to eat or drink or difficulty breathing, is to stay home and not visit doctors or hospitals, which may be overburdened dealing with people who are more severely sick. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals were overwhelmed by crowds, including large...
...committee to lower the maximum dosage of over-the-counter drugs containing acetaminophen and eliminate prescription acetaminophen-combination painkillers raised questions about what changes consumers should expect in the availability of the popular drug. The commonly used pain- and fever-reliever known as Tylenol is found in several nonprescription cough and cold remedies, including NyQuil and Theraflu. Patients are also asking what potential dangers their daily use of acetaminophen may pose. TIME.com talked to members of the FDA committee as well as pain experts to sort through some of the questions...
...unintentional overdose from the drug. According to the FDA, acetaminophen remains the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., despite repeated government warnings. However, the majority of acetaminophen-related deaths are due to prescription drugs, not over-the-counter medications. FDA data indicate that overdoses of nonprescription cough and cold products, like NyQuil and Theraflu, occur infrequently, when patients combine these medications with other acetaminophen products, like Tylenol, and unknowingly increase their exposure to the drug. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...Tylenol, is one of the most frequently used pain and fever relievers in the U.S. It has the advantage of not causing stomach bleeding or other gastrointestinal side effects that other popular pain medications, such as aspirin and ibuprofen, can cause. Acetaminophen is also found in several cold- and cough-remedy products as well as in prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...