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After seven victims fell prey to the “Tylenol Killer,” who added cyanide to eight bottles of the medication in the Chicago area, the nation witnessed an outbreak of copy-cat attacks throughout the month of October. Other tampering incidents affected household products such as Visine eye drops and orange juice—but the biggest concern as the month came to a close was the seasonal staple: candy...
...shouldn't people be free to treat their own problems?" then there is no good argument against it. Antidepressants are not that dangerous. And let's put safety aside altogether. Let's say we had a really safe antidepressant, or an antidepressant that's as risky as aspirin or Tylenol. Why shouldn't people be allowed to assist themselves and be in charge or their own lives? In a way when you put it like that it's hard to argue. In some sense - in America, certainly - an argument about autonomy and people making their own choices...
...Johnson & Johnson, the notion of engagement is part of overhauling the way the firm manages. One component gives work teams substantially more feedback on how they help the company as a whole. Imagine a chemical engineer in a Tylenol plant logging onto a system that shows how his factory's output feeds into divisional output--and how much closer that brings the company to its quarterly goals. "We believe this really creates commitment," says Kuschel. Once you're committed, the thinking goes, you work harder and make the company more money...
...expectation is that patients will cope better after the operation with the less-invasive new techniques - no external scarring, less pain (most of Horgan's patients take nothing stronger than Tylenol after surgery), shorter recoveries and no risk of hernia. Surgeons have created a national organization called the Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, or NOSCAR, to track the procedure's success and safety, and to collect data on patients' progress. NOSCAR also monitors the risk of infection with natural-orifice surgery, which doctors anticipate will be significantly lower than with traditional laparoscopic procedures - since the longer it takes...
...upstanding member of the public with sniffles can currently go into a pharmacist and buy Tylenol (full of potentially deadly acetaminophen), Sudafed (a methamphetamine precursor), and even the last-minute emergency contraceptive Plan B (15 times the regular contraceptive pill dose) no questions asked...