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Articles in Nov-Dec, 2001 issue of FDA Consumer

• Artificial hip recall
• Full-body CT scans: what you need to know
  by Carol Lewis
• Living with the enemy: never letting our guard down
  by Jeffrey S. Murray
• New treatment for Crohn's disease
• Encouraging women to take charge of diabetes: about 8.1 million women on the United States have diabetes, and one-third of them don't know it
  by Michelle Meadows
• Tips for online health product shoppers
  by John Henkel
• Several generic forms of Prozac approved
• Antibiotic use for sore throats
• The straight skinny on getting in shape
  by John Henkel
• Baycol voluntarily withdrawn by manufacturer
• Anthrax prevention and treatment
• California man convicted for brewing a coffee scam
  by Michelle Meadows
• Two new treatments for congestive heart failure
• Study: no long-lasting effects from kids' vaccines
• FDA web site named top fed site in Brown U. study
  by John Henkel
• First hormonal vaginal contraceptive ring
• HHS responds to terrorist attacks
• Learn about learning disabilities
  by John Henkel
• Product problem? Report it
• Beat the winter bugs: how to hold your own against colds and flu
  by Michelle Meadows
• Corrections
• Echocardiogram spots risk of stroke, heart valve disease
• Living with aids—20 years later
  by Anne Christiansen Bullers
• Fibromyalgia and ruptured silicone gel breast implants
• Home diagnostic tests: the ultimate house call? Screening tests often are used at home to checkfor symptoms of a disease when they may not be readily apparent
  by Carol Lewis
• Observations
  by Raymond Formanek, Jr.
• FDA issues second warning on gel candy
• Alternatives to hysterectomy new technologies, more options: more than 1 in 4 U.S. women will have a hysterectomy by the time they are 60 years old, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  by Linda Bren