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shoe
07-25-2005, 12:24 PM
This Q & A answers a question about the trouble with drinking grapefruit juice with medication. It has to do with the way this juice inhibits two enzymes which normally break-down the medications, thereby leaving more of the medication available to travel through the bloodstream, making the medication more 'potent' and possibly dangerous.

http://bipolar.about.com/od/medications/f/faq_grapefruitj.htm

*This might not be officially 'news' but there actually was a short news brief about this this month on About.com. The news brief is too short to be worthy of a link.