Every parent knows the basics: Make sure your family's diet sort of resembles the Food Pyramid. Limit TV-viewing time. And keep a bottle of syrup of ipecac in the medicine chest in case somebody ...

WASHINGTON -- Generations of parents knew the rule: Keep a bottle of ipecac around to induce vomiting in case your child swallows a poison. Now that rule may be about to change. Amid evidence that ...

CHICAGO -- Parents should avoid the old standby poison remedy of ipecac syrup and instead call poison control centers when children ingest toxic substances, the American Academy of Pediatrics says, ...

substances, the American Academy of Pediatrics says, reversing a long-standing position. For decades, doctors have recommended that parents keep a bottle of ipecac on hand to induce vomiting when ...

A new bill that will make it more difficult for people with eating disorders to buy a compound that induces vomiting has passed both houses of the state Legislature and awaits the signature of Gov.