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...June 30 vote by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory 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...
...separate vote, the panel recommended 36 to 1 that if acetaminophen-containing prescription drugs stay on the market, they should carry a black-box warning, the most serious safety label for prescription medications...
...panel recommend banning the painkillers Vicodin and Percocet? It's unclear. The wording of the question on which the members were asked to vote ("Do you recommend eliminating prescription acetaminophen combination products?") can be interpreted in two ways. A yes vote could indicate elimination of the product altogether, but it could also indicate elimination only of the pairing of acetaminophen and a narcotic (like hydrocodone or oxycodone), the other primary pain-relieving ingredient contained in Vicodin and Percocet. "The question did not specify, so conceivably panel members could have had different interpretations," says Ruth Day, director of the medical cognition...
...behind the idea of a constitutional convention. That, of course, could be a can of worms. Erwin Chemerinsky, a leading constitutional scholar and dean of the University of California Irvine Law School, argues that advocates for budget sanity should first try a ballot measure to change the two-thirds vote requirement on budget and tax measures. "If a statewide initiative to eliminate the two-thirds majority requirement can pass, that will solve a lot of the problem," Chemerinsky says. "And then it makes sense to move on to a constitutional convention...
...Islamic Republic has been busy in three main ways since the presidential elections of June 12. Rejecting charges that the result - a 63% vote for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - was the result of fraud, the regime organized a partial recount, which on June 29 reconfirmed Ahmadinejad's victory, a finding the opposition continues to reject. Simultaneously, the regime worked to put down the widespread street demonstrations that followed the disputed poll, sending in police and pro-government militiamen to beat up and disperse demonstrators. Now, with the street protests dying down, the regime has attempted to rescue its legitimacy by casting...