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Some 574,000 bottles of grape-flavored liquid Infants Tylenol (1 ounce) have been recalled by Johnson Johnson because reports that the protective cover on the bottles are not working correctly.

Johnson Johnsons McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit has received complaints of difficulty with the Infants Tylenol Simple Measure dosing system, which is inserted into a protective cover at the top of the bottle to measure the proper dose. In some cases, the flow restrictor was pushed into the bottle when the syringe was inserted.

Distributed nationwide, the recalled Infants Tylenol is an over-the-counter product sold as a pain reliever and fever reducer. According to news reports, the bottle is a redesign that was introduced three months ago and was described as a safety improvement to make measuring doses easier.

Recalled bottles have UPC code 300450122308, and include the following lot numbers: BIL0U00, BIL0V00, BIL3500, BJL2D00, BJL2E00, BJL2T00, and BJL2U00.

You can request a refund at www.tylenol.com, or call McNeil at 888-222-6036 (Monday-Friday 8 am to 8 pm ET; Saturday-Sunday 9 am to 5 pm ET).

Childrens Tylenol products are intended for children two years of age and older. To date, no adverse events associated with the recall have been reported. If you have health questions or concerns call your healthcare provider and visit www.tylenol.com for more information.

JJ consumer health segment recalls infant Tylenol [Associated Press]
McNeil Consumer Healthcare Announces Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Infants TYLENOL Oral Suspension, 1 oz. Grape Due to Dosing System Complaints [FDA]

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Modern Healthcare reports that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put on hold itsinitiative targeting fraud related topower wheelchairs and its expansion of the Recovery Audit Contractors.Georgia Health News reports on how health care fraud has taken root in Georgia.

Modern Healthcare: CMS Holds Off On Two Anti-Fraud Projects
The CMS delayed two anti-fraud demonstration projects that drew heavy provider opposition after they were announced in November. The delay in implementing anti-fraud programs for power wheelchairs and an expansion of Recovery Audit Contractor authority stemmed from the large number of comments and suggestions the agency received regarding two of the programs, the CMS said in a notice on its website (Daly, 12/30).

Georgia Health News: Atlanta A New Hotbed For Medical Fraud
Many perpetrators have moved to Georgia from the south Florida area, where health care fraud has been rampant and has drawn a heavy crackdown from law enforcement. When she took the WellPoint job after spending 25 years with the FBI, I was just amazed at the cases of fraud, says [fraud investigator Alanna] Lavelle, who is based in Atlanta (Miller, 12/30).

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Johnson is absolutely staying in the race and continuing with his third-party bid, despite reports to the contrary spurred by a concocted email.

News reports this evening had libertarian former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson dropping his bid to win the Libertarian Party nod and endorsing Ron Paul, suggesting a Paul third party bid might be in the offing after Pauls strong showing in the Iowa caucuses tonight.

A spokesman for Gary Johnson said those reports were false.

Somebody is sending an email to news outlets concocted from me and that is absolutely not true, Joe Hunter, communications director for Gary Johnson, told The Atlantic. I have not even seen the email. I hope to soon.

But the take home was that Johnson was absolutely staying in the race and continuing with his third-party bid.

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Stock in beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is up almost six per cent amid reports of a possible shakeup of the companys board. News reports say co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie are considering relinquishing their titles as co-chairmen of the RIM board. Balsillie (left) and Lazaridis talk to media after an Ontario Securities Commission hearing in Toronto, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

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SAN JOSE, Calif.A San Jose police officer is in the hospital after a carjacking suspect rammed his patrol car during a chase.

The San Jose Mercury News reports (http://bit.ly/zg0Ul5) the chase began Tuesday at a gas station, where the suspect allegedly punched another man and stole his SUV.

During a subsequent police pursuit, the suspect rammed three patrol cars. Police say the suspect later slammed into a fourth patrol car that was attempting to prevent him from striking a family crossing the street.

Sgt. Jason Dwyer says one officer was sent to the hospital with serious injuries but is expected to live. Other officers sustained minor injuries and were not hospitalized.

The suspect, a 27-year-old man, was arrested after police cornered him, stunned him with a Taser and wrestled him.

Information from: San Jose Mercury News, http://www.sjmercury.com

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New York City police have arrested a man suspected of five firebomb attacks Sunday night that may be hate crimes.

Update at 8:22 pm ET: The 40-year-old suspect, who is of Guyanese descent, told police he threw two small firebombs at an Islamic center in Queens because he was denied use of the bathroom, a law enforcement official tells the Associated Press. He also told police he had personal grievances with the other four targets, including the home of a relative in neighboring Nassau County.

AP writes that the unidentified source said the suspect made broad anti-Muslim statements and could be charged with a hate crime.

He was tracked through a stolen car with Virginia license plates believed spotted at at least two of the attacks. Police said he has previous arrests for drugs, passing bad checks and weapons possession.

Update at 4:12 pm ET: Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the suspect was believed to be at the scene of at least two of the Queens attacks on a bodega, the Imam Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation, an Islamic cultural center where about 80 people were worshiping, and two homes, one of which was used as a Hindu temple.

Police also suspect the man is responsible for a failed fifth attack Sunday night on a home in Elmont, just over the Nassau County border. A homeowner told police he heard glass shattering, smelled gasoline and found a broken glass bottle on his porch.

The suspect is believed to be the same person kicked out of the convenience store Dec. 27 for trying to steal a glass Starbucks bottle and milk, police have said.

No one was hurt in any of the attacks and there was little damage.

Fox provides this chronology:

The first hit was at 8 pm, when a bottle was thrown at a counter at the corner convenience store where the man was kicked out.

Ten minutes later, a possible firebomb smashed through the glass at a nearby home, setting it on fire and badly damaging it. Three children were inside.

About half an hour later, the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation, an Islamic center, was hit with two, one at the entrance where about 80 worshippers were dining, and one near a sign for the centers grade school.

And shortly after 10 pm, two bottles were thrown at a house that police said was used for Hindu worship services, causing minimal fire damage.

Update at 4:01 pm ET: Police spokesman Paul Browne says the unidentified man made statements implicating himself in the attacks and had personal grievances with each targeted location, the Associated Press reports.

Original post: A suspect has been arrested in four firebombings in New York City on Sunday night, according to news reports.

Police said earlier today they had picked up a suspect driving a car with Virginia license plates.

The suspected hate-crime attacks targeted an Islamic center and a Hindu temple. The Molotov cocktails were made from Starbucks drinks bottles.

Fox News reports that a law enforcement source told Fox affiliate WNYW-TV that the suspect confessed under questioning.

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Brandi Glanville is a married woman…but not for long.

The NY Daily News reports that Glanville drunkenly married friendDarin Harvey while in Las Vegas.

[We're] married! Glanville, 38, told Us Weekly. But to make it legal, I have to go to the courthouse today and I dont think were gonna. Super fun though!

Were not gonna stay married. But it was a fun way to start out the new year!

Glanville has taken to her Twitter account to address followers questions about her marriage. When asked if theyve consummated the marriage, Glanville replied, Ive never had sex with Darin! Our wedding was our first kiss!We are just friends.

Glanville also addressed one Twitter users comment that Glanville and Harvey mocked marriage with their stunt. Glanville replied, Marriage mocks itself, I believe anyone and everyone should be able to get married! Y not me???

Glanville posted a photo of herself and Harvey to her Twitter account. You can view it here.

Read more about Brandi Glanville here and check out her Twitter account here.

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Three sets of twins were born in different years over New Years weekend.

In Buffalo, NY, little Ronan Rosputni was born in the waning moments of 2011, and his twin brother Rory was born 33 minutes later in 2012.

Ronan was the last baby born in 2011 at Women Childrens Hospital in Buffalo, at 11:37 pm Saturday. Rory arrived at 12:10 am Sunday.

The Buffalo News reports that the boys appear to be fraternal, not identical, twins: Ronan has auburn hair like his mother, Brighid, while Rory has darker hair like his father, Thomas.

Brighid Rosputni said family members already have proposed one birthday party for the twins on the same day in the same year.

In Minnesota, Beckett Humenny was born at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis at 6:40 pm on New Year’s Eve, and later in 2012, his twin sister Freya was born, the Star Tribune reported.

Beckett weighed in at four pounds, 11 ounces; Freya weighed two pounds, five ounces.

Nurses threw confetti to celebrate Freya’s New Year’s Day birth. “It was a party when she came out,” mother Stephanie Peterson said of her younger twin.

She joked that Beckett will likely tease his sister about being a year younger.

“I’m excited that they will have two birthdays,” she said.

The twins were born at 34 weeks and will spend a week in the hospital’s newborn intensive care unit, according to the Star Tribune.

Hospital staff said they were unable to recall another incidence of twins being born on both sides of a new year.

In Tampa, Fla., Blake and Jocelyn Bear gave birth to Jenna in 2011, and twin sister Leah in 2012, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

NewsCore and the Associated Press contributed to this article.

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Stock in beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is up almost six per cent amid reports of a possible shakeup of the companys board. News reports say co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie are considering relinquishing their titles as co-chairmen of the RIM board. Balsillie (left) and Lazaridis talk to media after an Ontario Securities Commission hearing in Toronto, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

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DOD Seeks Safe Hormuz Passage for All, Official Says

By Cheryl Pellerin
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2012 Closure of the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has threatened while holding military exercises there since Dec. 23, will not be tolerated, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today.

According to international news reports, Iran has warned the United States not to replace the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, which last week left the strait — the only sea passage to the open ocean for petroleum-producing nations in the Persian Gulf region.

“Such regularly scheduled movements are in accordance with longstanding US commitments to the region’s security and stability, and in support of ongoing operations,” Little told reporters.

Such carrier strike group deployments are needed to maintain continuity and operational support to ongoing missions in the US Central Command area of responsibility, he added.

“Our interest is in safe and secure maritime passage for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” Little said.

“No one in this government seeks confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz,” he added. “It’s important to lower the temperature.”
The deployment of US military assets in the Persian Gulf region will continue as it has for decades, the Pentagon press secretary said.

The US Navy operates under international maritime conventions to maintain “a constant state of high vigilance to ensure the continued safe flow of maritime traffic in waterways critical to global commerce,” Little added.

“Our transits of the Strait of Hormuz continue to be in compliance with international law,” he said, “which guarantees our vessels the right of transit passage.”

Little said the department is committed to protecting maritime freedoms that are the basis for global prosperity — one of the reasons US military forces operate in the region.

“We are obviously aware of reports of missile tests that are apparently tied to Iranian naval exercises that began in late December,” he said, adding that Iran has the right to conduct exercises and that it has taken no hostile or aggressive action against US Navy vessels in the region.

“The United States believes that the Iranian regime should devote its energy and resources to establishing friendly relations with countries in the Gulf region,” Little said.

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