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Articles in July-August, 2005 issue of FDA Consumer

• Study shows programs can teach children to eat healthier
• New drug extends lives of brain cancer patients
• Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study
• Drug name confusion: preventing medication errors
  by Carol Rados
• Sealant after brain surgery
• New warning on antipsychotic drugs used to treat older people
• First-of-a-kind device treats aneurysms
• Battling lupus
  by Michelle Meadows
• HHS buys children's version of radiation emergency drug
• Does sex make a difference?
  by Linda Bren
• Final rule on albuterol inhalers
• Take the FDA consumer quiz
• First whooping cough vaccine for adolescents
• New oral rinse helps treat gingivitis
• Reducing the risk of rabies
  by Linda Bren
• Personalized medicine
• Observations
  by Raymond Formanek, Jr.
• Counterfeit drug warning
• Computer-assisted surgery: an update
  by Michelle Meadows
• New treatment for chronic hepatitis B
• Antiperspirant awareness: it's mostly no sweat
  by Carol Rados
• First DNA-based test to detect cystic fibrosis