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FDA pursuing changes to stem look-alike, sound-alike drug mix-ups (access required)

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, January 2, 2002
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<TAB>The epilepsy drug Lamictal looks and sounds too much like the antifungal pill Lamisil. How much? At least 22 times, pharmacies have confused the names and dispensed the wrong drug -- causing three people to suffer seizures, says the government

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