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...breakdown of muscle tissue. (Stopping the drugs at the first sign of trouble usually halts the breakdown.) For some reason, patients who took Baycol--especially at higher doses or with another drug called gemfibrozil--were at greater risk. Bayer decided to drop Baycol in part because its attempts to alert doctors to those situations didn't always work. Drugs like the statins have the potential to save thousands of lives, and COX-2 inhibitors can relieve untold suffering. The trick, as always, is in figuring out how to use them wisely...
...Odds that a pacemaker will be recalled, or a safety alert issued, over a one-year period...
...memory returns. The night of Clinton's first inauguration, in January, 1993, I went to dinner in Washington with a group of media types. I sat next to a well known columnist and television talking head whom I have always thought of as the Beaking Bird: With his alert, black-button eyes and his sharp nose, he resembles that toy perpetual-motion bird forever bobbing, like a metronome, on the rim of a glass and dipping its beak, quite pointlessly, in the water...
...company yesterday afternoon went to its highest state of emergency alert and is bringing additional crews into the area to deal with any potential problems...
These are desperate times in Israel. Even though Israeli security officials in Jerusalem are on maximum alert - and have foiled a number of suicide bombing attempts in the past week - one terrorist, sent by Islamic Jihad, slipped through. And he managed to kill 17 Israelis and wound 70 more in a packed pizzeria. As news of the latest outrage broke, Palestinian security officials began hurriedly evacuating their premises, knowing that a fearsome Israeli retaliation is all but inevitable. The last vestiges of the cease-fire brokered by CIA chief George Tenet will probably have been laid to rest by dawn...