Word: aspirins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from Western nations. In partnership with Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, the French chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc has invested $500,000 in a factory where 120 Saigonese produce vitamin C, aspirin and cough syrup...
...disease has no known cure. Aspirin is the standard treatment, because it lowers fever, reduces inflammation and helps keep the blood from clotting. Most afflicted children eventually recover fully, as Jeffrey did, but up to one-third develop problems-especially aneurysms in the coronary arteries, weak patches in the walls of the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Complications from the condition, which may include abnormalities in the heart rhythm, heart attacks, or even a rare rupture of the coronary artery, kill about two in 100 patients...
...congressional hearing, an erroneous press report that the Arthritis Foundation had urged FDA approval of the drug and a segment on the TV show 60 Minutes have put DMSO back in the spotlight and renewed the controversy over its effectiveness. Is DMSO, as its supporters stubbornly claim, "the aspirin of the 21st century"? Or is it, as its detractors insist, merely a quack drug, "another Laetrile...
From Hammurabi to Nixon, wage and price limits have been almost universally disastrous. Hoarding and scarcities quickly develop as businessmen either stop producing goods or store them rather than sell-at a loss. Mammoth and costly bureaucracies soon tell the corner pharmacist how much to charge for aspirin or a gas station owner whether he can give his mechanic an extra $5 a week. In the U.S., the World War II controls program required 60,000 full-time officials, plus another 300,000 volunteer price checkers...
...that a teaspoon of neutron-star stuff would weigh about a million tons, a human would be crushed to the thickness of a postage stamp, and the entire population of planet Earth, if shipped to a neutron star, would be compressed into a volume about the size of an aspirin tablet. Strange objects, these neutron stars they represent demonstrably non-terrestrial states of matter. Their abnormal properties are surpassed by only one other type of phenomenon--the black hole...