This weekend, This American Life had a good story on acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. Appears 150 people die each year from overdoing on Tylenol and the company views this as the cost of doing business. They make enough money off the product, which the FDA has done nothing about, to warrant 150 deaths/lawsuits per year.
Often hear people who have a headache state they need a Tylenol. Think twice!
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/use-only-as-directed
Original story on ProPublica:
http://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-kids-dose-of-confusion
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