Don't Double Up on Acetaminophen

Don't double up on acetaminophen

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A Washington, D.C., reporter for more than 30 years, Jim Limbach covers the federal agencies for ConsumerAffairs. … It's also used in combination medicines, which have more than one active ingredient to treat more than one symptom. … Fathia Gibril …
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Lincoln redux from King to Obama

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Last week, on January 21, the Mall in Washington DC was packed with Americans of all backgrounds, colors and stripes. We all know that "race" is not a biological category but a … was added to my vocabulary. LeVar Burton, who played Kunta Kinte, still …
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Around world, gun rules, and results, vary wildly

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 26: Postcards meant to be mailed to members of Congress advocating for stricter gun control laws are displayed at a rally on the National Mall on January 26, 2013 in Washington, DC. Demonstrators … Treating gun ownership as a …
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Harper Governments Omnibus Crime Bill C-10 Rejected by USA – Conservatives in the United States’ toughest crime-fighting jurisdiction – Texas – say the Harper government’s crime strategy won’t work. “You will spend billions and billions and billions on locking people up,” says Judge John Creuzot of the Dallas County Court. “And there will come a point in time where the public says, ‘Enough!’ And you’ll wind up letting them out.” Adds Representative Jerry Madden, a conservative Republican who heads the Texas House Committee on Corrections, “It’s a very expensive thing to build new prisons and, if you build ’em, I guarantee you they will come. They’ll be filled, OK? Because people will send them there. “But, if you don’t build ’em, they will come up with very creative things to do that keep the community safe and yet still do the incarceration necessary.” These comments are in line with a coalition of experts in Washington, DC, who attacked the Harper government’s omnibus crime package, Bill C-10, in a statement Monday. “Republican governors and state legislators in such states of Texas, South Carolina, and Ohio are repealing mandatory minimum sentences, increasing opportunities for effective community supervision, and funding drug treatment because they know it will improve public safety and reduce taxpayer costs,” said Tracy Velázquez, executive director of the Washington-based Justice Policy Institute. “If passed, C-10 will take Canadian justice policies 180 degrees in the wrong direction, and Canadian citizens will bear the costs