Hayli Murphy hears her mother's cell phone ring, and she bounces off the couch to get it. Watching her run around, it's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, the 9-year-old was heavily sedated in a pediatric intensive care unit, a ventilator doing the job her lungs -- ravaged by H1N1 flu -- could no longer do.
There's a reason for each and every sniffle, sneeze, ache, and pain. Learn why your body behaves the way it does, and discover the quickest ways to feel better.
The discussion of late has revolved around mixed martial arts' rise has hurt boxing. But let's be clear: boxing has done a heck of a job hurting itself with corrupt rankings, meaningless titles and a noticeable lack of quality fights.
The makers of Tylenol are recalling 21 children's and infant's Tylenol liquid products manufactured between April 2008 and June 2008 from warehouses and retail stores as a safeguard against potential contamination.
I was 24, Michael Jordan was 23. He was sitting on a padded table in the trainer's room at the Chicago Bulls' practice facility in 1986, a few days before he would score an NBA-record 63 points in a playoff game at Boston.
A toxic chemical added to a popular pain reliever likely killed two dozen children in Bangladesh, health officials said Tuesday.
The special effects exploded too early while Michael Jackson filmed a Pepsi commercial in 1984 and his hair caught on fire, causing burns to his scalp.
A government advisory panel began voting Tuesday on recommendations for reducing the risk of serious liver injury associated with acetaminophen, found in over-the-counter drugs such as Tylenol and NyQuil.
The FBI announced Wednesday that it is working with Illinois state and local police to review evidence related to the 1982 Tylenol murders.
Dr. Bruce Ivins, the former government scientist blamed for a string of deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, behaved oddly and was "sarcastic and nasty" to his wife in the final weeks of his life, police documents said.
Hayli Murphy hears her mother's cell phone ring, and she bounces off the couch to get it. Watching her run around, it's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, the 9-year-old was heavily sedated in a pediatric intensive care unit, a ventilator doing the job her lungs -- ravaged by H1N1 flu -- could no longer do.
There's a reason for each and every sniffle, sneeze, ache, and pain. Learn why your body behaves the way it does, and discover the quickest ways to feel better.
The discussion of late has revolved around mixed martial arts' rise has hurt boxing. But let's be clear: boxing has done a heck of a job hurting itself with corrupt rankings, meaningless titles and a noticeable lack of quality fights.
The makers of Tylenol are recalling 21 children's and infant's Tylenol liquid products manufactured between April 2008 and June 2008 from warehouses and retail stores as a safeguard against potential contamination.
I was 24, Michael Jordan was 23. He was sitting on a padded table in the trainer's room at the Chicago Bulls' practice facility in 1986, a few days before he would score an NBA-record 63 points in a playoff game at Boston.
A toxic chemical added to a popular pain reliever likely killed two dozen children in Bangladesh, health officials said Tuesday.
The special effects exploded too early while Michael Jackson filmed a Pepsi commercial in 1984 and his hair caught on fire, causing burns to his scalp.
A government advisory panel began voting Tuesday on recommendations for reducing the risk of serious liver injury associated with acetaminophen, found in over-the-counter drugs such as Tylenol and NyQuil.
The FBI announced Wednesday that it is working with Illinois state and local police to review evidence related to the 1982 Tylenol murders.
Dr. Bruce Ivins, the former government scientist blamed for a string of deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, behaved oddly and was "sarcastic and nasty" to his wife in the final weeks of his life, police documents said.
Jo-Lynne Shane is furiously looking for ways to spend $500 in the next three weeks. If she doesn't, that money will disappear at the stroke of midnight December 31.
A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings
Consultations: TIME asks a prominent bioethicist whether antidepressants should be more widely available
Ever hear the one about the guy who had peachy-pink peonies imported from Chile every February? Apparently, he wanted to guarantee his sweetheart a touch of spring each morning.
Johnson & Johnson's reorganization might seem like nothing more than a Band-Aid. But even in the face of looming drug patent expirations and slowing sales for some of its key medical devices, the company is a more solid bet than ever.
The over-the-counter cold medications for infants that are being voluntarily withdrawn are:
A number of over-the-counter infant cough and cold medicines are being taken off store shelves over potential misuse of the drugs that could lead to overdose.
In recent years the number of diet developers and holistic healers hawking products to purge your body of harmful chemicals and foreign substances has exploded. But do your liver and lymph nodes really need cleaning? Some detox regimen -- like herbal supplements, spa treatments, and special diets that are designed to mop up pollutants, dietary waste, and even unwanted pounds --can actually do you some good. But how to know whether you should be trying any of them?
Kristin Reinhardt still has the green pills in their original packaging, covered with Chinese characters, a souvenir from a 2004 trip to China that left her at the mercy of local medical practices after her travel party was struck with a stomach bug on a riverboat cruise. "I ended up with these Chinese herbs that flat out made me nervous," says the San Diego, California, resident.
Decades after Tylenol bottles were tampered with and Ford Pintos exploded, you'd think that product-safety panics would be nearing extinction.
In November 2005, 38-year-old professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero died in a Minneapolis hotel room due to what a coroner later ruled as heart disease, complicated by an enlarged heart resulting from a history of anabolic steroid use.
In light of the recent spate of consumer-product scandals involving contaminated pet food or E. coli-tainted produce, James Burke's response to the Tylenol murders in 1982 remains the gold standard...
GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) -- The Par-3 Shootout, which has featured Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Phil Mickelson, has been canceled for this summer but will resume in 2008.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A half hour after Southern Illinois had beaten Butler at Hinkle Fieldhouse in the marquee event of BracketBusters Saturday, Jamaal Tatum was still lingering in the Salukis' parents section. He was massaging his injured thigh, talking to his father, and clutching the only appropriate antidote for the 68-64, 48-foul, 63 free-throw grudge match that had just transpired: a bottle of Tylenol.
Instead of making a list from scratch for every outing, keep this master list of essentials and tailor it to each journey:
About 11 million bottles of store-brand acetaminophen caplets are being recalled by the manufacturer over concerns some may contain small metal fragments.
Caution, caution
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide," Napoleon said. The Frenchman definitely made some major calls, such as invading Russia. Now that was a decision....
ABLE Laboratories may not be a household name, but you'll find its generic drugs in households all over the United States.
Drug and consumer products manufacturer Johnson & Johnson posted higher third-quarter earnings and revenue Tuesday that topped forecasts on Wall Street.
Ask any parent--if you tell kids what to do, they're sure to do the exact opposite. Tylenol seems to have read that child-rearing chapter, because lately it has been acting like the coolest parent ...
Even as Wall Street prepares for another quarterly earnings party, some workers are folding up chairs and popping balloons as the outlook for profits just gets tougher from here.
Online data security breaches don't make headlines every day, but they happen often enough to keep some consumers wary of making online purchases, others of banking online, and still others of giving their personal health information to online medical sites.
like many people, I don't use capital letters when I type e-mail. but when I got a new computer a few months ago, it had Microsoft software that automatically capitalizes the first letters of some ...
Earle Dickson's bride was learning to cook--and constantly cutting and burning herself in the process. So Dickson, a cotton mill worker for surgical supplier Johnson & Johnson in 1920, created mak...
You get a prescription, you pop your pills, and in a few days you feel better. Sounds easy. But taking medicine is not as simple as it seems. And we'd do a much better job of treating what ails us ...
The collapse of tech stocks since March 2000 has been so devastating that lesser disasters aren't getting the attention they deserve. Pharmaceutical giants were premier growth stocks throughout mos...
The collapse of tech stocks since March 2000 has been so devastating that lesser disasters aren't getting the attention they deserve. Pharmaceutical giants were premier growth stocks throughout most of the 1990s. And despite current problems, the group stands to profit mightily from long-term increases in the demand for health care as the population ages. Nonetheless, over the past 18 months or so, the share prices of big drug companies have dropped as much as 57 percent, and most analysts have turned bearish on the group.
This fall, Chris Barrett and Luke McCabe will become the first corporate-sponsored college students. First USA Bank will pay their tuition at Pepperdine University and the University of Southern Ca...
Mention Johnson & Johnson to the average investor, and the name conjures images of Band-Aids and baby powder. That's a problem for longtime chief executive Ralph Larsen. For as much as Larsen loves...
Anyone who has been a longtime reader of this magazine knows the case for patient, conservative growth investing. And anyone who has followed this column over the past few months knows why I think ...
If you're lucky, your business won't ever face public relations nightmares like the Tylenol poisonings of 1982 or the Firestone recalls, says Tim Metz, a managing partner at Hullin Metz & Co. But k...
HELP KIDS FIGHT FAT Obesity isn't just a health threat to the middle-aged anymore; today 11% of American kids are overweight, up from 5% 20 years ago. A new weapon in the fight against fat: the fir...
A minor scrape, sneeze or ache can turn into a major headache abroad. Chances are you won't find the over-the-counter remedy you're used to. And who wants to spend vacation time looking for a drugs...
1. Packing as an exercise in self-definition. I love to go a-wandering, a knapsack on my back. A pair of shorts, a few shirts, a good book. A harmonica, maybe. What more does a person need? Let's s...
Everybody's got a list. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a list. Santa has a list. FORTUNE has several lists. And now the American Management Association has one: the 75 Greatest...
You're here!" says the Swedish voice. "Brilliant!" It's 2:10 at the Ice Hotel, a bit past check-in, and our guide at the world's largest igloo is pleased to see that I haven't fled--yet--for the wa...
As Washington continues to scramble for reasons why last November's elections didn't play out as forecast, a poll by a New York market researcher named Mark DiMassimo has a simple explanation: Not ...
AFTER THREE AILING YEARS, HEALTH-care stocks bolted off their sickbed to a 40% gain in 1995, handily beating even the robust 34.1% rise in Standard & Poor's 500. This year S&P's health-care analyst...
TO ANYONE even remotely familiar with the organizational structure of large corporations, encountering the layout of Johnson & Johnson is like bumping into a ten-armed lady at the supermarket. Wher...
What do you get when you divide 4,195,835 by 2.9999991? The answer: 1,398,612, unless you're using a PC based on Intel's Pentium processor, which comes up with 1,398,527. The chip has a subtle flaw...
Call it a grand delusion. While many parents spend time and money on books and services that search out so-called outside scholarships -- awards given by nonprofit groups, corporations and foundati...
A bewildering choice confronts anyone with a garden variety pain like a headache, a stomachache, or a sprained ankle. Are you better off taking aspirin, Motrin IB, Advil, Nuprin, Tylenol, or one of...
IF YOU DON'T LIKE the hand you're dealt, get yourself another hand. That's what the Imcera Group did. In just six years Imcera transformed itself from an ailing producer of fertilizer and commodity...
Colleges call them non-need-based awards, merit money or just plain scholarships. Whatever the name, they can sharply reduce a bright and ambitious student's college costs, or even eliminate them e...
Even though he carried the title of chairman of Chase Manhattan through the 1960s, George Champion effectively played second banana to his co-CEO and the bank president, David Rockefeller. One cont...
Books on management seem to be appearing by the truckload. But quantity is no guarantee of quality, which ranges from mostly awful to occasionally admirable. If your reading time is shrinking faste...
SHELEME M. SENDABA, 41 NISSAN MOTOR CORP. Working for change has kept Sendaba on the move. In 1970 his anti-government reform efforts prompted him to leave his native Ethiopia. Exile led him to Chi...
Their skills, their fields of accomplishment, and even their social behavior could hardly be more different. But this year's laureates elected by FORTUNE's board of editors to the National Business...
IF AMERICANS are born to shop, the Japanese seem condemned to spend. Prices in Japan are among the highest in the world. An apple can set you back two bucks, dinner for four at a traditional Japane...
IF THE OIL SPILL proves anything, says Exxon's boss, it's that you need someone in charge who can ''move quickly without a lot of recriminations.'' Criticized for staying out of public view for nea...
THE BARBARIAN HORDES were descending on Rome, mayhem in their loathsome souls. There was only one man to take charge of the republic in its hour of need, and the call went out to a humble farmer na...
Forward Indicators Dept.: Looking for a sure sign that corporate America has regained its composure after the unpleasantness in the financial markets? Just watch for a revival of talk about ethics ...
H. ROSS PEROT, 56, insisting he will not run for President: ''This country has enough problems without inflicting me on it.''
Although the late Thomas Rowe Price invented the growth-stock theory of investing in the 1930s, in recent years the $22 billion mutual fund group that bears his name has not been a hotbed of fresh ...
When management decides to use a company's excess cash flow to buy back its shares, that tells you two things: executives are optimistic about the company's future, and they think the stock is unde...
WHEN A WOMAN from Peekskill, New York, died in early February after taking Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide, the commercial reverberations resounded beyond the executive offices of...
We have two questions about the stillexpanding (as of late February) Tylenol story. The first is who are the friends that everybody expects Johnson & Johnson to make by reducing consumer sovereignt...
Can Johnson & Johnson convert the millions of customers for Tylenol capsules to something called a caplet? Chief Executive James E. Burke fervently hopes so. The company discontinued the manufactur...
MOBIL cuts all contact with the Wall Street Journal and withdraws its advertising, out of anger at news stories about the company. Fighting back in response to a 20/20 program, the Bechtel Group ge...
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