A Food and Drug Administration Public Health Advisory was issued Jan. 17 warning that over-the-counter cough and cold products should not be used to treat infants and very young children because very serious side effects can occur, including death, convulsions, rapid heart rates and decreased levels of consciousness.

“FDA strictly recommends in ratios and trustees, that tussis OTC and cold medicines have not been used for children, Charles Ganlei, ALGORITHM MD is younger than 2,” said Charles Ganley, MD, director of the FDA’s Office of Nonprescription Products. “In these medicines which handle symptoms instead of the ratio, have not shown to be assured or quantity [for this age group].”
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Today, Olive, Edwards & Cooper announced the addition of Dr. David McWhorter as a principal who will provide clients with strategic plans as they enter or expand into the homeland security marketplace. His immediate focus will be ensuring that the firm’s clients are knowledgeable about the SAFETY Act (the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002) and helping them through the sometimes arduous SAFETY Act approval process.
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The research team from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Granada (UGR), together with the Department of Radiology at the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves in Granada, have designed a portable and low-cost device which can measure the ionizing radiation someone is exposed to, for example, during radiotherapy.

Ionizing radiations play a vital role in the treatment and diagnosis of malignant neoplastic illnesses as well as in the diagnosis of other pathologies. However, according to Manuel Vilches Pacheco from the Medical Physics and Radiology Department at the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves in Granada, “the potential harm ionizing radiations can cause means that, in order to obtain clinical benefits and reduce the onset of unwanted adverse effects as much as possible, they must be used under strict quality control”.
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