Word: aspirins
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...truth is that no medication--not even a nonprescription drug like aspirin--is 100% safe. Whether you realize it or not, whenever you take a drug, you are weighing the potential benefits against the possibility that the medicine can hurt you. So it pays to find out as much as you can about any drugs--including herbal remedies--you are taking...
When the COX-2 inhibitors hit the market in 1999, doctors and patients alike expected a lot from the little painkillers. The old standbys--which include aspirin and ibuprofen (Advil)--can tear up the lining of the stomach and cause serious bleeding disorders. These side effects occur when a protective enzyme called cyclo-oxygenase 1, or COX-1, is suppressed. Because the COX-2 inhibitors don't affect COX-1, it was expected that they would have fewer side effects...
...only one asking questions. Patients with a variety of concerns have been flooding physicians' phone lines with inquiries about Celebrex and Vioxx, two examples of a heavily advertised new class of analgesics called COX-2 inhibitors that are supposed to be easier on the stomach than aspirin. Some folks wanted to discontinue their medication; others just needed to hear that the potential cardiac threat was only theoretical and not proved...
...company's CEO, Mike Wood, isn't troubled by making money off a manufacturer's misfortune. "When you have a headache, the aspirin is not taking advantage of you," he says. By helping clear excess inventories more quickly, "this kind of service could contribute to a turnaround." And if it does, Wood is well placed to continue making money during an economic expansion, when higher unit prices for goods sold on his site would offset any decline in excess-inventory volume...
...tell my friends I loved them, and then minutes later start a fight. I was failing out of school, drinking every day, ditching classes. I stole a lot from my parents, I couldn't hold down jobs. I was big into either cutting myself or drinking a lot with aspirin, or taking a lot of poisons. I managed to hide those suicide attempts from my parents. When I'd wake up in the morning, I couldn't look at myself in the mirror...