{"id":1912,"date":"2009-07-01T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2009-07-01T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T14:35:40","slug":"fda-panel-urges-limits-on-acetaminophen-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/01\/fda-panel-urges-limits-on-acetaminophen-products\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA panel urges limits on acetaminophen products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1930\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/acetaminophen.jpg\" alt=\"acetaminophen\" width=\"144\" height=\"96\" \/>Calling for sweeping safety restrictions on acetaminophen, the most widely used painkiller, because it is the leading cause of liver failure, a panel of 37 <a title=\"experts urged the FDA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/01\/health\/01fda.html?em\" target=\"_blank\">experts urged the FDA <\/a>to lower Tylenol&#8217;s maximum dose, halt sales of prescription Vicodin, but make no changes to NyQuil and Theraflu. <a title=\"Brian McGeeney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/clinicalfaculty\/mcgeeney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian McGeeney<\/a>,MD, a pain specialist and assistant professor of neurology at BU&#8217;s School of Medicine, questions some of the new restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Brian McGeeney, (617) 638-7742, <a href=\"mailto:mcgeeney@bu.edu\">mcgeeney@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling for sweeping safety restrictions on acetaminophen, the most widely used painkiller, because it is the leading cause of liver failure, a panel of 37 experts urged the FDA to lower Tylenol&#8217;s maximum dose, halt sales of prescription Vicodin, but make no changes to NyQuil and Theraflu. Brian McGeeney,MD, a pain specialist and assistant professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1386,1387,1389,1388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}