STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The scene from a "Family Guy" episode opens with Peter Griffith announcing to the family that he has several cases of ipecac — an over-the ...

Ipecac syrup earned its vomit-inducing reputation when it became the go-to treatment for reversing the effects of poison ingestion throughout the eighteenth century, after it was discovered in the ...

Every parent knows the basics: Make sure your family's diet sort of resembles the Food Pyramid. Limit TV-viewing time. And keep a bottle of syrup of ipecac in the medicine chest in case somebody ...

A medicine-cabinet staple for millions of parents, syrup of ipecac may soon disappear from drugstore shelves. The Food and Drug Administration is considering evidence that ipecac, the long-standing ...

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Weeks after a mother in Lincoln, Neb., started telling doctors that her 8-month-old child was suffering unexplained bouts of vomiting, the case was referred to experts at Mayo Clinic. The woman took ...

Indianapolis, July 22 - The Indiana Poison Center takes about 200 calls each day, 60,000 a year for childhood poisonings. Most cases don't end up in the hospital and parents often treat their kids at ...

Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics reverses a long-held recommendation regarding the home treatment of childhood poisonings. For over 20 years the AAP has recommended that parents of young ...

"The impression that [ipecac] is very effective just isn't borne out. Some people would argue that it's not effective hardly at all." -Dr. Robert Geller, medical director of the Georgia Poison Control ...

I'm not even linking to this, because I couldn't watch any of them, but today during my daily random YouTube explorations I learned that there's this whole entire YouTube trend of people (usually ...

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A new bill that will make it more difficult for people with eating disorders to buy a compound that induces vomiting has passed both houses of the state Legislature and awaits the signature of Gov.