WASHINGTON - A Food and Drug Administration investigation into the safety of caffeine-added foods has prompted Wrigley to take its new caffeinated gum off the market for the time being.

TORONTO - Marchese Hospital Solutions should have accounted for the extra saline in bags of diluted chemotherapy drugs that were administered to just over 1,200 cancer patients in two provinces, an Ontario legislative committee heard Monday. The company's contract specified an "exact concentration" of the drugs, but the labels didn't accurately describe their contents, said Medbuy, a group purchasing organization that arranged the contract between Marchese and four Ontario hospitals.

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities and counties can ban medical marijuana dispensaries, a decision likely to further diminish the network of storefront pot shops and fuel efforts to have the state regulate the industry. In a unanimous opinion, the court held that California's medical marijuana laws — the nation's first and most liberal — neither prevent local governments from using their land-use powers to zone dispensaries out of existence nor grant authorized users convenient access to the drug.

TRENTON, N.J. - Men who are bashful about needing help in the bedroom no longer have to go to the drugstore to buy that little blue pill. In a first for the drug industry, Pfizer Inc. told The Associated Press that the drugmaker will begin selling its popular erectile dysfunction pill Viagra directly to patients on its website.