Word: aspirins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joseph's Adult Maximum Strength Aspirin-Free Tablets now come in multilayered plastic sheets so tough that a consumer can get a headache just trying to pry one open. Other manufacturers have tried, not successfully, to find the middle ground between and frustration. Bristol Myers now packs bottles of Excedrin and Bufferin in little pull-top cans that look like baking-powder canisters. The company picked this approach, which will cost an extra 5? per package, after trying out 24 different methods. It found that consumers liked the idea that any tampering with the can is especially easy...
...rate of .14% for chymopapain is about the same as that for lumbar disc surgery. Still, surgeons are cautioning patients that chymopapain is a last-ditch therapy short of surgery. In 95% of the millions of patients with herniated discs, the pain can be relieved by bed rest and aspirin...
...course, the recent Tylenol poisonings cast a shade of gloom over just about any drugstore purchase. These days we reach for the aspirin with a sinking feeling that this might be the last one we take. But candy and capsules are different things. Caution is always in order, but this year should have proved no more worrisome than any other...
...medical therapy. PGS have been used to treat ulcers and circulatory disturbances and to soften the cervix and stimulate labor for births and abortions. Compounds that block PG formation have been used to relieve pain caused by gallstones and menstruation. In fact, the most common pain reliever of all, aspirin, produces its effect by blocking the synthesis of certain prostaglandins, a discovery made by Vane in 1971 that helped resolve the longstanding mystery of how aspirin works...
...placed such acts entirely beyond the imagination. But we are not talking here about a bombing in a Bologna railroad station or of the Day of the Triffids. This is American everydaydom, the casual course of events. Alarmed, the mind skates hurriedly to the ifs: If Tylenol, why not aspirin? If drugs, why not food? October is the month for Halloween, after all. The razor blade in the apple? The lamb chops, the soap, the Pepsis? We already had an eyedrop scare. Hasn't the water tasted funny lately...