OTHER NEWS - Jan. 7, 1993

Ban Sought on Diarrhea Drugs: A consumer group will ask the Food and Drug Administration today to ban or relabel a variety of widely used drugs for treating pediatric diarrhea, calling them ineffective and dangerous. Public Citizen wants the FDA to ban pediatric dosage forms of Imodium A-D--the best-selling over-the-counter anti-diarrheal drug in the United States--as well as the prescription drug Lomotil. It also wants to bar some adult and pediatric forms of such drugs, including Kaopectate, Donnagel-PG, Rheaban and Diasorb.