"Health & Medical News"

By Bob Curley

Officials at retail giant Nordstrom have agreed to stop selling sandals with a built-in flask after receiving complaints from the Oregon Partnership, a community-based prevention and treatment organization.

The flip-flop style sandals, manufactured by Reef, were spotted by Oregon Partnership communications director Pete Schulberg on a recent visit to a Nordstrom store in Portland. Schulberg quickly dashed off a letter to Nordstrom’s president of stores, Erik B. Nordstrom, describing the sandals as having a hidden three-ounce flask, a funnel, and a plastic key.

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Physicians frequently miss the connection between their patients’ symptoms and some well-known side effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, according to a new study based on reports from 650 patients.

When patients taking statins complained to their doctors about muscle weakness or pain, cognitive problems such as memory loss and other symptoms, physicians dismissed the possibility of adverse drug reactions nearly a third of the time, researchers concluded.

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