Word: aspirins
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...used by almost 11 million Americans to improve memory and increase blood circulation. Doctors now believe ginkgo may reduce the number of platelets in the blood and can prevent blood from clotting properly. Taking ginkgo at the same time one is taking blood-thinning medications, like Coumadin or even aspirin, could make a patient dangerously vulnerable to bleeding...
...weakest and least representative piece-Koo Jeong-a's "Oslo," a miniature sand-dune topography made of aspirin filings-is, ironically, the one selected for the cover of the catalogue. In an otherwise pithy exhibit, this oblique and banal concept piece is a huge misstep. (The curators appear equally confused, commenting on it only with the flustered remark that it "raises questions about the fundamental idea of landscape...
...South Carolina attorney general Charlie Condon called it a "smoking gun" that would allow him and other state attorneys general to sue the entertainment companies in the same way they successfully sued the tobacco industry. "They're going after these kids full bore," he says. "It's like an aspirin company marketing adult aspirin to children in violation of their own standards." But a class action of the kind that brought down the cigarette makers would be a hard case. While the connection between smoking and cancer is backed by solid medical evidence, it would not be so easy...
...South Carolina attorney general Charlie Condon called it a "smoking gun" that would allow him and other state attorneys general to sue the entertainment companies in the same way they successfully sued the tobacco industry. "They're going after these kids full bore," he says. "It's like an aspirin company marketing adult aspirin to children in violation of their own standards." But a class action of the kind that brought down the cigarette makers would be a hard case. While the connection between smoking and cancer is backed by solid medical evidence, it would not be so easy...
...like headaches and heartburn. But the FDA is weighing the possibility of letting stores sell medicines that treat symptomless lifetime conditions like high cholesterol and osteoporosis--as many other Western nations do. The agency could go so far as to make birth-control pills and antibiotics as accessible as aspirin. That's too far for some critics, who express concern about our nonchalant, pill-popping approach to medicines. Does anyone even read a label? they...