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  1. Newsgroups: sci.med
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  3. From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
  4. Subject: Omniflox...why was it recalled?
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  10. Organization: Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, Indiana
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  12. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:10:32 GMT
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  15. Back in May of 1992, my physician prescribed Omniflox (an oral antibiotic)
  16. for recurring infections on my right foot.
  17.  
  18. About a week later, he told me to stop taking it because the FDA had just
  19. ordered that it be recalled, due to some "side-effects" in "some" people.
  20.  
  21. Yesterday evening, I happened to watch the primetime rag "A Current Affair",
  22. on which people who suffered from various kinds of paralysis, allegedly
  23. due to this drug, were featured.
  24.  
  25. What is it, specifically, that caused the FDA to recall the drug?
  26.  
  27. Jim Graham 
  28.  
  29.         -> ->Disclaimer: I do not speak for my company. <- <-
  30.                           Neither do they speak for me.
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  32. | Internet: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu                              |
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