FDA Slaps Warning on Cipro

This goes for all of you who rely on Cipro to eradicate the nasty stomach bugs you pick up from undercooked meat in foreign countries: The Food and Drug Administration has ordered drug companies to add a black-box warning, the agency’s strongest warning, to Cipro and other antibiotics due to risk of tendonitis and tendon rupture. If you want the basics in language that you might actually understand, read the report at CNN.

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