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Tamiflu WARNING! DON'T take Tamiflu. And -- even more importantly -- don't let your pediatrician give it to your kids or grandkids either.

While warnings haven't been added to the labels just yet, the FDA started reviewing the safety of Tamiflu back in 2005 after reports started filtering in about hallucinations, convulsions, and other neurological disturbances occurring in children taking it. And Tamiflu's cousin Relenza isn't much better: The only thing it has going for it is that it hasn't actually killed any kids, unlike the 25 deaths attributed to Tamiflu.

And if the threat these two flu drugs pose to children isn't enough to turn your stomach and keep you from taking them yourself, consider this: Just because these events have only been recorded in children doesn't mean they can't -- or won't -- occur in adults too.

Of course, true to form, rather than yanking them off the market or outlawing their prescription to people under the age of 21, the FDA is considering (that's right, considering -- not requiring) having the manufacturers, Glaxo and Roche, add warnings of "hallucinations, delirium, and abnormal behavior" to the drugs' labels.

I think I'd rather take my chances with the achy chills and fever that come along with the flu.

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Copper, Silver Tested As Germ Wards
Dec 31, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - Out with stainless steel, in with copper? It might be a new hospital trend - not for looks, but for germ-fighting. Some intensive-care units in New York and South Carolina are about to get copper fittings as part of a project to test if drug-resistant bacteria survive better on hospitals' ubiquitous stainless steel than on copper.

About 1.7 million Americans a year develop infections while hospitalized and almost 100,000 of them die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Scientists have long preached better hygiene to control hospital spread of germs, but increasingly medical manufacturers are looking to anti-germ coatings to help.

In November, the Food and Drug Administration approved sale of the first breathing tube coated with silver, a metal long known to somewhat repel bacteria.

Ventilator patients are at high risk of getting pneumonia. In a multi-hospital study, 7.5 percent of patients given a regular breathing tube developed pneumonia, compared to 4.8 percent of those given C.R. Bard Inc. (BCR)'s new Argento ventilation tube, the FDA found.

Also this fall, Baxter HealthCare Corp. announced FDA clearance of a silver-coated IV catheter connector, designed to help prevent bacteria from clustering at this entry point to the bloodstream.

But a coppery hue in hospitals?

In a British study published last year, drug-resistant staph germs survived for three days on stainless steel plates kept at room temperature, but the researchers found no sign of the germs on pure copper after 90 minutes.

The new study, funded by a government grant to the Copper Development Association, is putting that finding to a real-world test involving three drug-resistant bugs - staph, enterococci and acinetobacter.

First, researchers are swabbing down a handful of ICU rooms at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Medical University of South Carolina and Charleston's Veterans Affairs Medical Center. They must learn where the germs lurk, explains Sloan-Kettering lead researcher Dr. Kent Sepkowitz.

Then the hospitals will substitute copper for some germ-prone surfaces in those rooms, and track if the change makes a difference.

Copper is expensive, but so are hospital-caused infections, Sepkowitz says.

"The question is will it save more money than it costs," he says.

LENA'S COMMENT: I'm hoping that the studies will be reported accurately but the statement; "a metal long known to somewhat repel bacteria." let's their bias show through. Silver is one of the greatest bacterial/fungal/viral killers that exists and not only does it NOT create mutant megabacteria as does man made antibiotics do, but boosts the immune system while killing more than 640 illness producing bugs!

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Splenda marketing lawsuit to go ahead, says judge
By Lorraine Heller

12/11/2007 - A lawsuit regarding claims of false advertising for the artificial sweetener Splenda is set to go ahead as planned, after a federal court rejected a request for summary judgment.

The case between industry body Sugar Association and Johnson & Johnson - parent company of the distributor of the artificial sweetener - was originally set to go to trial this month.

It follows a long-standing dispute between the company and the trade body, which claims that the marketing slogan for the product - 'Made from sugar so it tastes like sugar' - is deliberately being used to make consumers believe that the artificial sweetener contains sugar.

However, Johnson & Johnson, representing its subsidiary firm McNeil Nutritionals, requested a summary judgment on the grounds that the plaintiffs had unreasonably delayed bringing suit.

United States District Dale Fischer rejected this request, saying that the claims against Johnson & Johnson should be heard by a jury at a trial on the merits.

The trial is now scheduled to begin on January 29, 2008.

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Nature and Man Jointly Cook Arctic
Jan 2, 2008
By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON (AP) - There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.

There's a natural cause that may account for much of the Arctic warming, which has melted sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature. New research points a finger at a natural and cyclical increase in the amount of energy in the atmosphere that moves from south to north around the Arctic Circle.

But that energy transfer, which comes with storms that head north because of ocean currents, is not acting alone either, scientists say. Another upcoming study concludes that the combination of both that natural energy transfer increase and man-made global warming serve as a one-two punch that is pushing the Arctic over the edge.

Scientists are trying to figure out why the Arctic is warming and melting faster than computer models predict.

The summer of 2007, like the summer of 2005, smashed all records for loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and ice sheet in Greenland. In September, the Arctic Ocean had 23 percent less sea ice than the previous record low. Greenland's ice sheet melted 19 billion tons more than its previous record.

The Nature study suggests there's more behind it than global warming because the air a couple miles above the ground is warming more than calculated by the climate models.

Climate change theory concentrates on warming of surface temperatures and explains an Arctic that is warming faster than the rest of the world as mostly because reduced sea ice and ice sheets means less reflecting solar rays.

Rune Graversen, the Nature study co-author and a meteorology researcher at Stockholm University in Sweden, said a shift in energy transfer explains the thawing more, including what's happening in the atmosphere, but does not contradict consensus global warming science.

Oceanographer James Overland, who reviewed Graversen's study for Nature, said the research dovetails with an upcoming article of his which concludes that the Arctic thawing is a combination of the two.

"If we didn't have the little extra kick from global warming then we wouldn't have gone past the threshold for the change in sea ice," said Overland, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's lab in Seattle.

Other researchers said Graversen's study underestimates the effect of global warming because it relied on older data that stopped at 2001 and wasn't the most accurate.

Overland and scientist Mark Serreze disagree over which effect - man-made or natural - was the big shove that pushed the Arctic over the edge, but they agreed that overall it's a combined effort.

"Think of it as a boxer that's almost going down for the count ... and that one blow to the noggin comes and he's down for the count," said Serreze, a senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo.

http://www.nature.com/nature