Tuscaloosa Family Medicine - Clinical Pearls

Lifesaving Devices Can Cause Havoc at Life’s End (RT @nytimes)

Lifesaving Devices Can Cause Havoc at Life’s End

Interesting discussion in the lay press of a growing new angle in our end-of-life discussions... turning off implanted cardiac defibrillators. http://nyti.ms/94d0CS 

Sketches by Dr. Alan Blum published in Pulse - Voices from the Heart of Medicine

Our own Dr. Alan Blum just had a touching piece published in Pulse - Voices from the Heart of Medicine.

(Pulse is a weekly e-journal that publishes personal accounts of illness and healing and fosters the humanistic practice of medicine. I've found it to be brief and refocusing every week. It is definitely worth a look.)

  See more from Dr. Blum here.

Recall of Over-the-Counter Infants’ and Children’s Products

McNeil Consumer Healthcare Over-the-Counter Infants’ and Children’s Products: Recall.

including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products

[Posted 04/30/2010] McNeil Consumer Healthcare and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a voluntary recall of certain over-the-counter (OTC) Children’s and Infants’ liquid products manufactured in the United States, including Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products. Some of these products may not meet required quality standards. This recall is not being undertaken on the basis of adverse medical events. However, as a precautionary measure, parents and caregivers should not administer these products to their children. These products were distributed in the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Dubai (UAE), Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, and Kuwait. Read the McNeil Press Release below for a list of affected products. Consumers can contact the company at 1-888-222-6036 and also at www.mcneilproductrecall.com

[04/30/2010 - Questions and Answers - FDA]
[04/30/2010 - Press Release - McNeil Consumer Healthcare]
[05/01/2010 - News Release - FDA]