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...however, moved quickly to respond to what it called "a potential safety issue related to Avandia," issuing a safety alert on the drug just hours after Nissen's study was made public. While the agency pointed out that other studies of the drug have reached different conclusions, it nonetheless will take up the issue of the cardiovascular risk of Avandia and similar drugs with an advisory committee "as soon as one can be convened." Earlier data about Avandia prompted the FDA to strengthen the drug's warning label last year. The FDA also disclosed that GSK recently provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Avandia the Next Vioxx? | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...that they express themselves abnormally, a trickier proposition because doctors need to add something and suppress something else at the same time. (Boatright and co. would inject short DNA strands that, where they bound with the patient's DNA at the point of the fault, would alert the body's existing repair mechanisms to the problem). The future looks bright indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gene to Cure Blindness | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...important to know that when the government says this person is really dangerous, it's not just exaggerating again," says Aziz Huq, director of the Liberty and National Security Project at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. "Virtually every day we're on orange alert in this country, and at some point that's just not helpful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The "Dirty Bomber" Goes on Trial | 5/14/2007 | See Source »

Tornadoes are among the least predictable storms. It was a lifesaving triumph that forecasters were able to alert the people of Greensburg 20 minutes before the monster struck. But the sad spectacle of finger pointing and recriminations in the aftermath of disaster is becoming as predictable as the stoicism of survivors and the inevitable promises to rebuild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katrina in Kansas | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...information, researchers concluded that the order of events in a migraine is not as straightforward as they had been taught. The nerve endings in the dura mater appear to act first, releasing proteins that cause the blood vessels to open and prime the nerves to maintain a state of alert. In other words, swollen blood vessels are the result of a growing migraine, not its cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Headaches | 5/8/2007 | See Source »

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