Word: aspirins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single aspirin a day can help keep heart attacks away for hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to a striking new report from the Veterans Administration. The study involved 1,266 male patients suffering from unstable angina, an extremely painful condition that is often a harbinger of heart attacks. About half the men (625) took one dose of aspirin daily in the form of an Alka-Seltzer solution (used because it is less upsetting to the stomach than plain aspirin). The other patients were given a fizzy placebo...
...twelve weeks, the rate of both heart attack and mortality was 51 % lower among aspirin users than among the group taking placebos. Though aspirin is thought to interfere with potentially dangerous clotting of blood, earlier tests showed it to be of limited help to patients who have already had a heart attack. The new data, however, clearly demonstrate that small doses are very effective in preventing heart attacks in people who have had the warning signs of unstable angina...
...mildly sprained ankle came away with a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory drug, a stomach powder to ease the side effects of the drugs, and a foot plaster. In the U.S., he probably would have been told to stay off the foot for a while and take a few aspirin...
...forget about taking a vacation this summer. The man eyes a paperweight on his desk and longs to throw it at his oppressor. Instead, he sits down, his stomach churning, his back muscles knotting, his blood pressure climbing. He reaches for a Maalox and an aspirin and has a sudden yearning for a dry martini, straight...
Many legal experts consider the decision an aberration and hope that other courts will ignore it, but the new test will hardly make it easier to protect trademarks. Among those lost over the years: Thermos, Aspirin, Cellophane, Zipper and Yo-Yo. Xerox fights desperately with ads and public relations efforts to keep its name from slipping into generic usage. The makers of Sanka are waging the same war. Anspach had sold 525,000 copies of Anti-Monopoly before he was stopped. (Parker Brothers sells more than 2 million of the original each year.) He now hopes to get his games...