HealthDay - SATURDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health experts on
Friday urged the federal Food and Drug Administration to consider banning
the sale of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for young
children.
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AP - Customer satisfaction with a toll-free help line for Medicare beneficiaries appears to be dropping based on interviews conducted earlier this year by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Investor’s Business Daily - Investors yanked $12.27 billion from stock funds last month in the wake of a market sell-off that started in July and persisted into mid-August.
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Reuters - The probability of a recession in the
United States has increased but is still less than 50/50,
former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in comments
broadcast on Friday.
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AP - He was one of America’s first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
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AP - Very young children simply should not take some commonly used cold and cough medicines, federal health officials say in recommending that the “consult your physician” advice to parents on the labels be dropped.
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Reuters - People with a certain gene
mutation are more likely to get Parkinson's disease early —
before the age of 50 — compared to those without the gene
abnormality, according to a new study.
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Reuters - In men with early or
"localized" prostate cancer, the strategy of active
surveillance of their cancer does not appear to increase levels
of psychological stress any more than undergoing immediate
treatment does, according to UK researchers.
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