That would result in computing a dose of medicine for a 100-year-old person -- possibly fatal for a child.

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Siga vehemently disagreed, expecting a much larger payment for a dose of the medicine based on their argument that their intellectual property was far more valuable than what the government was prepared to acknowledge.

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"It was a safe dose of a kids' medicine, with side effect of sleepiness, " he says.

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Some Indian analysts have also suggested that the United States take a dose of its own medicine in accepting international observers in future elections.

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After a call to the APCC, Shakespear got a daily dose for a week of human-heartburn medicine Pepcid to prevent stomach irritation from the overdose.

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Without adequately testing the drugs, doctors don't even know if they are giving children an ideal dose of a medicine.

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Just recently, a third theory has entered the arena, that Alexander died from a maladministration of hellebore, a medicine that, if given in too large a dose, could also be a toxin.

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According to briefing documents available on the FDA's Web site, sound-alike and look-alike names are a common cause of medicine errors--when patients receive the wrong drug or the wrong dose.

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"You cannot give dose-dense chemotherapy without Neupogen, " says Marc Citron, a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Brookeville, N.

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Once, in a lecture, a doctor Church did not know stood up and told him he needed to change the dose of his cholesterol medicine.

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