|
FDA considers new rules for ipecac use
|
MEDICINE:
Many doctors are now criticizing the over-the-counter remedy as a
way to treat poisoning.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON _ Generations of parents knew the rule: Keep a bottle
of ipecac around to induce vomiting in case your child swallows a
poison. Now that rule may be about to change.
Amid evidence that ipecac doesn't actually treat poisoning well _
and is being abused, sometimes fatally, by people with bulimia _ the
government is considering ending over-the-counter sales of the syrup.
Already some poison-control centers have quit recommending ipecac
at all, and overall use is ...
|
Books: A peeress with a passion for piety Selina Hastings was a Methodist zealot, a battleaxe and a distant forebear of Selina Hastings
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Queen of the Methodists: The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century...called upon by his cousin, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, a woman of formidable piety...breeding." Born in 1707, Lady Selina Shirley married in 1728 Theophilus...
|
|
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Giacomo Torelli, theatrical designer, 1678; Prosper-Jolyot de Crebillon, playwright, 1762; Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, Methodist reformer, 1791; Lord William Bentinck, governor-general of India, 1839; William Hart...
|
|
2007 Hymnic Anniversaries
Magazine article from: The Hymn
; ...birthday of St. Francis of Assisi, the 400th birthday of Paul Gerhardt, the 300th of Charles Wesley and Selina Hastings (the Countess of Huntingdon), the 250th of Daniel Read, the 275th of Franz Joseph Haydn, and the 200th of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
|
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
|
Archive: A well connected lady; Chris Upton discovers a countess so much ahead of her time, she created her own religious sect.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...Chris Upton The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion sounds...is the Countess of Huntingdon? By the 1730s, the...rich either. Enter Selina Hastings, daughter of the...1728, Countess of Huntingdon. In an age when we...
|
|
In the midst of early Methodism; Lady Huntingdon and her correspondence.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...9780810857933 In the midst of early Methodism; Lady Huntingdon and her correspondence. Tyson, John R. with Boyd...orphanage and established a seminary. The efforts of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntington, were integral to all the eighteenth...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "FDA considers new rules for ipecac use"
