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...year study showed that the amphetamine-like stimulant phenyl-propanolamine (PPA), despite decades of use as a decongestant and a weight-loss drug, increases the risk of hemorrhagic stroke, especially in young women. The FDA subsequently deemed it unsafe and asked manufacturers to pull medications containing PPA off pharmacy shelves. PPA has been on the market since the mid-1930s, and consumers take 6 billion doses of it annually, in such products as Alka-Seltzer, Robitussin, Dexatrim and Tavist-D. Though PPA is widely used in many popular cold and diet pills, medications with the safer alternative pseudoephedrine are easy...
...After decades of use as a decongestant and a weight-loss drug, a six-year study showed that the amphetamine-like stimulant phenyl-propanolamine (ppa) increases the risk of hemorrhagic stroke, especially in young women. The FDA subsequently deemed it unsafe and asked manufacturers to pull medications containing ppa off pharmacy shelves. ppa has been on the market since the mid-1930s, and consumers take 6 billion doses of it annually, in such products as Alka-Seltzer, Robitussin, Dexatrim and Tavist-D. Though ppa is widely used in many popular cold and diet pills, medications with the safer alternative pseudoephedrine...
...fairly humming with homicidal ingenuity. One Chicago student got a long letter from the Bursar's Office, discussing his tuition payments, didn't realize that he had been trapped until the last paragraph: "By the way, you have just been handling paper impregnated with contact poison-phenyl-hydrazine substitution products. This poison should by now be spreading through your system and you will lie groaning on the floor. This is your hunter speaking. You are now dead...
...countless chemicals in his photo lab-but which one? Working day and night under the red darkroom lights, he dabbled with hundreds of dyes and compounds. Finally, on Dec. 7, 1961, he reached up among the rows of bottles and picked a rarely used mixture called mercaptan l-phenyl-5-mercaptotetrazole. When he swabbed the mixture on the film and then developed it, recalls Blake, "it was like going to the race track and hitting the daily double." The payoff: a major advance in photography...
...Doctors are learning to control phenyl-pyruvic oligophrenia, a
brain-crippling disease of infants caused by the body's failure to
assimilate a protein called phenylalanine. University of Minnesota
nutritionists report the case of a one-year-old boy in whom a diet of
enriched and predigested milk protein, plus fruits and vegetables,
arrested the disease.