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Most people suffer from headaches at some time in their lives. Once doctors were in the habit of dismissing patients who came to them complaining of headaches as chronic crybabies, offering them little more than consolation and aspirin. Now physicians are taking headaches seriously. Headache units for both clinical work and research have been established at several major hospitals. Their work has led to better-but far from complete-understanding of man's ancient affliction...
...complaints name three firms, American Home Products (Anacin and Arthritis Pain Formula), Bristol-Myers (Excedrin, Excedrin P.M., Bufferin) and Sterling Drug (Bayer aspirin, Cope, Vanquish, Midol). On the basis of research by the Food and Drug Administration, the FTC says that there is no reasonable basis for claims that any of the analgesics is better than any other, or that they relieve nervous tension. There is, says the agency, "a substantial question as to the validity, sig- nificance or interpretation of tests and studies related to such claims...
...Administration has been looking into drug efficacy since 1962 and has found that a number of preparations do not meet their manufacturers' claims. But the commission's remedy is dramatic. Its proposed order would prohibit any further misrepresentation and require disclosure in advertising of the presence of aspirin or caffeine, which could worsen the condition of some patients. Penance for past sins would be even stiffer. In a drastic application of the "truth-in-advertising" doctrine, the FTC wants drug companies to devote 25% of their advertising expenditures during the next two years to ads correcting the claims...
...Instead of going all the way to UHS with a cold, just to be told to drink liquids and take aspirin, they could find out that's really all that can be done, from a student in the house," McKenna explained...
...American investors. Chinese represents a vast untapped source of new markets. One drug company executive summed up the American attitude, saying, "If we sell each of them (every individual in China) one aspirin, then that's selling a lot of aspirin." On February 14, just before his departure. Nixon removed from the embargo list many goods China had shown interest in buying but which had been blocked by Pentagon objections. These items included locomotives, internal combustion engines, and other industrial equipment...