NEW YORK — A Bronx man had just slashed his girlfriend and was threatening to cut his mother’s throat when a police officer fatally shot him from five feet away,
ATLANTA — Two retired New York City police officers who detained a woman accused of trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home in Atlanta last week were
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking to require makers of Botox and several similar injections to include stronger warnings about the risk of a potentially fatal muscle-paralyzing disease. These injections, which use various versions of botulinum toxins to contract specific muscles by blocking certain nerve signals to erase wrinkles, already have a 'black box' warning in their labels about the risks of the intended effect spreading to other areas. The consumer group asked the FDA to make it clear that these adverse effects could happen even at recommended dosages.