STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The scene from a "Family Guy" episode opens with Peter Griffith announcing to the family that he has several cases of ipecac — an over-the ...
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 ...
Weeks after a mother in Lincoln, Neb., started telling doctors that her 8-month-old child was suffering unexplained bouts of vomiting, the case was referred to experts at Mayo Clinic. The woman took ...
Every parent knows the basics: Make sure your family's diet sort of resembles the Food Pyramid. Limit TV-viewing time. And keep a bottle of syrup of ipecac in the medicine chest in case somebody ...
A medicine-cabinet staple for millions of parents, syrup of ipecac may soon disappear from drugstore shelves. The Food and Drug Administration is considering evidence that ipecac, the long-standing ...
Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics reverses a long-held recommendation regarding the home treatment of childhood poisonings. For over 20 years the AAP has recommended that parents of young ...
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 ...
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 ...
CHICAGO -- Parents should avoid the old standby poison remedy of ipecac syrup and instead call poison control centers when children ingest toxic substances, the American Academy of Pediatrics says, ...
A new bill that will make it more difficult for people with eating disorders to buy a compound that induces vomiting has passed both houses of the state Legislature and awaits the signature of Gov.
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 ...