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Articles in Sept-Oct, 2004 issue of FDA Consumer

• Company ordered to halt sales of unapproved drugs, reimburse buyers
• Adverse events associated with 'permanent makeup'
• Living with psoriasis
  by Michael Paranzino
• Magnets attracting you? Read this
  by John Henkel
• Software system detects lung nodules
• Observations
  by Raymond Formanek, Jr.
• The critical path: accelerating the development of medical products
  by Carol Rados
• Safeguards strengthened against mad cow disease
• New director at FDA's CDRH
• Beyond bloodletting: FDA gives leeches a medical makeover
  by Carol Rados
• 'Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day'
• An easy way to 'Get the Facts'
  by John Henkel
• Psoriasis: more than cosmetic
  by Linda Bren
• FDA cautions breast-feeding moms
• Chinese infant formula not safe
• FDA, alliance work to improve health information access
• Botox approved for severe underarm sweating
• New anthrax test
• Report: number of cancer survivors increasing
• Some great advice for girls
  by John Henkel
• Prescription drug information
  by Linda Thrasybule
• Robotic device cleared for heart surgery
• FDA reiterates warning against online drug buying
  by Carol Rados
• Got milk? Make sure it's pasteurized
  by Linda Bren
• New drug to treat alcoholism
• IOM report: no link between vaccines and austism: there is no link between autism and the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine or the vaccine preservative thimerosal, according to a report released by the Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Comm
  by Michelle Meadows
• Our world is dangerous now—are you ready?
  by John Henkel
• Take the FDA consumer quiz
• Making an informed decision about breast implants
  by Carol Rados
• Cancer vaccines: training the immune system to fight cancer
  by Michelle Meadows