AP IMPACT: Zicam just one of many homeopathic drugs with side effect reports, no safety testsCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The unsettling little secret of Zicam Cold Remedy finally spilled out this week. Though widely sold for years as a drug for colds, it was never tested by federal regulators for safety like other drugs. And that was perfectly legal — until scores of consumers lost their sense of smell. Hospitals, others, oppose Obama’s plan to reduce Medicare and Medicaid spendingWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday he wants to help pay for his health care overhaul by slowing Medicare and Medicaid spending, but hospitals, medical technicians and others are resisting. Mexico day care fire turns spotlight on burn center at Shriners hospital in CaliforniaSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Among the latest patients airlifted to a hospital in northern California are four little children who face weeks, if not months, of care. AP IMPACT: Hospitals try acupuncture and ‘mumbo jumbo’ as alternative medicine goes mainstreamBALTIMORE — At one of the nation’s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient’s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive. AP News in Brief |
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