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This final version of the bill. But a couple of things have unfolded. In the last half an hour. One of them is that a key amendment that was really important to some of those hard line republicans failed. Theyd failed on a ti, the vote was serenely close, 212 to 212. So what you were seeing play out on the floor, right now is a vote on the underlying bill. The final version of this legislation that does not include an amendment that was very important to some of those conservatives that would ha...

Same. when you see it as a side effect from a vaccine, it is usually mild heart inflammation that goes away on its own, usually when i few weeks. when you get myocarditis from a virus such as covid-19, it is much more severe. it can cause permanent heart issues, death. it can stick around and be long lasting in your body and not go away like the mild cases with he see with the vaccine. >> such a good point. >> the last thing was dosing errors. so the fda has taken this into account. pfizer has m...

Your doctor. they are showing several studies came out in 2018 showing somewhere around 550 patient errors may have been due to the input of ehrs. the problem is there are gag clauses in these contracts, which is legal, especially with software intelligence you can have gag clauses if there is a problem with the technology you are not able to report it the problem is we are talking about patient care. steve: those are the problems. what can patients do about it. >> president trump is taking this...

Indiana, ended with the discovery of her body. the 9-year-old had not been seen since last friday. now the family friend who was watching her before she disappeared is charged with murder. police say the friend is a 39-year-old ex-con who had been babysitting the girl along with her two sisters. a significant reward is now being offered in the case of missing toddler ayla reynolds in maine. $30,000 being offered by police to anyone offering information that helps find her. she was reported mis...

Administration is telling parents to watch out if they give liquid acetaminophen to their infant children. the problem is potential for giving kids the wrong dose of medicine. the fda got manufacturers to agree to make the liquid version in single concentration to reduce the chance of dosing errors. not all drugmakers complied. products with different strengths remain on shelves and in medicine cabinets. packaging is often so similar that parents may not notice that the new product has a differe...

If dosing should be based on weight as opposed to age. currently labels on pain relievers contained acetaminophen tell parents to ask a doctor for the right dose for children under 2. some say thats forcing some parents to guess the dosage and last year dosing errors let to 7500 emergencies reported to poison centers in 2010. joining me bob bazell. whenever you talk to a parent and they have a sick child they often express confusion on who what is the proper dosage. >> if you take the 2 to 12-ye...