Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Novartis - No-Doz: hold the coffee!

The parents of a 19-year-old town resident whose death last November was linked to taking nearly two dozen No-Doz caffeine tablets are making a public appeal to have better warning labels placed on the product or to have it sold as a prescription medicine.

James Stone died Nov. 27 of a heart attack brought on by what the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner termed "caffeine toxicity." Now Stone’s parents, James Stone Sr. and his wife, Diane, say they want to warn the public that an overdose of caffeine can carry serious consequences.

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Update - this is making Insider think!

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