What event caused FDA to prohibit sale of ephedra?
Answer: Death of baseball pitcher Steve Bechler, but it took 10 years for the FDA to compile the evidence
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Dietary Supplements and OCD
- What are the seven active ingredients found in different combinations in OTC stimulants, sleep aids, weight-control, analgesics, cold, cough, allergy and sinus medications?
- What does FDA advise concerning the use of cold medications with children?
- What does FDA have to say about antihistamines and the treatment of colds?
- What is the best way to reduce the risk of catching a cold?
- What causes soreness and swelling of mucous membranes with a cold?
- What two groups of viruses are known to be associated with colds?
- What causes the common cold and why is it so difficult to find a cure?
- What are the four things you need to know to avoid colds?
- What active ingredient used in many cold medications has been used recreationally to produce psychoactive effects?
- What are the three most common active ingredients in cold/flu medication?
- What was the controversy surrounding the NSAID Vioxx being pulled from the market by the FDA?
- What are the negative side effects of both acetaminophen and ibuprofen, not found with aspirin?
- How is ibuprofen classified differently than aspirin or acetaminophen?
- What are the adverse side effects of acetaminophen?
- What is the difference between acetaminophen and aspirin?
- What is the mechanism of the antipyretic action of aspirin?
- What is the mechanism of the analgesic action of aspirin?
- On what list does aspirin along with acetaminophen and ibuprofen appear?
- What is Reye's syndrome and how is it linked to aspirin?
- How is the adverse effect of aspirin used to benefit certain populations?
- What are the adverse effects of aspirin?
- What does aspirin exert its antipyretic action?
- What is the onset of action and metabolic rate of aspirin?
- What is the therapeutic dose of aspirin?
- What are the three clinical effects of Aspirin?
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