Tylenol (drug)

Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?

2013-05-10 00:00:00

It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...

Anxiety? Existential crisis? David Lynch film? Take a Tylenol

2013-04-18 12:26:00

Are you suffering from an existential crisis? Take two Tylenol and call me in the morning. New research suggests that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, may be able to alleviate the�pain of an existential crisis in the same way it alleviates...

Court ruling lifts age limit on morning-after pill

2013-04-05 18:25:00

President Obama once fretted about the prospect that girls as young as 10 or 11 could walk into a drugstore and buy emergency contraception pills as easily as "bubble gum or batteries." With his blessing, the Department of Health and Human Services...

Slow response to tainted product

2013-02-21 18:28:00

Sue Grey had used the product before, so she knew what to expect when she purchased a bottle of Super Colon Cleanse at a Woodland Hills CVS drugstore. Inside should have been 240 little gray capsules. But when Grey, 57, opened the sealed bottle at her...

Take two spritzes of deer antler spray and call me in the morning

2013-02-02 17:15:00

I've used deer antler spray for two days now, and I've rarely felt better, though I do find myself with an overwhelming urge to grind my itchy noggin against big birch trees, and last night, as someone pulled into the driveway, I just suddenly froze in...

Largest OB-GYN organization urges over-the-counter birth control

2012-11-20 16:03:00

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a call Tuesday for birth control pills to be sold over the counter. Currently oral contraceptives are available only with a doctor's prescription. In a policy statement, the organization...

First the cat, now the health system puts the bite on me

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Call it the $55,000 cat bite. That's the rough total in medical costs (so far) for a cat bite on my hand that turned into an infection that turned into surgery that turned into a week in the hospital. Cruddy cat. When I first wrote about the episode...

HELPED OR HOOKED?

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Fourteen of Doanh Nguyen's patients have died of prescription drug overdoses since 2005, coroner's records show. But he's not to blame for any of them, he said. His practice in Orange County's Little Saigon caters to pain sufferers of all kinds....

PASSINGS: James E. Burke, Barbara Ann Scott, Stephen Frankfurt

2012-10-02 00:00:00

James E. Burke Johnson & Johnson CEO during Tylenol poisoning James E. Burke, the former Johnson & Johnson chief executive whose leadership during the Tylenol poisoning scare of the 1980s became a model for corporate crisis management, died Friday in...

Arrested Glendora doctor was duped by dog X-ray, police say

2012-07-12 21:37:01

Call me a contrarian, but I say Netflix is on the right track

2011-09-20 16:32:49

What if Tylenol were taken off the self-service shelves?

2011-12-08 16:35:07

Researchers have found that extra-strength Tylenol may be able to mitigate the pain associated with an existential crisis.

2013-04-18 11:23:42

Extra Strength Tylenol

2012-11-09 16:42:00

The Jewel-Osco pharmacy has a deal going through Wednesday: Spend $15 on select products, get a $5 coupon at the register. The products include Delsym, Airborne,Cold-Eeze, Tylenol Cold & Flu, Alka-Seltzer Plus, Zicam, Vicks' and more cold and flu season products.

2012-11-04 05:00:00