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...benefits of such over-the-counter pain relievers as aspirin and APCs have long been recognized. But evidence that these familiar remedies are not necessarily harmless in all circumstances has accumulated only recently. For reasons not yet understood, people who take excessive doses over a number of years may incur anemia or kidney damage...
...taxes have increased twice as much as personal income; welfare costs have soared 113.7% in the past eight years. As Reagan charged during an NBC Meet the Press confrontation with Brown, the Governor's administrators automat-ica'ly reach for state and federal subsidies as the instant aspirin for almost any problem. Despite such immediate and debatable issues, the campaign (which Bob Hope has called "How the West Was Won, starring Ronald Reagan and Pat Brown") has largely echoed and re-echoed extravagant personal attacks...
...their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing out sewing needles to the women, or went out to work beside the men cutting manioc root in the fields. The medical cadre, with white armbands, distributed aspirin, nose drops, scrubbed down children. Within a month the team will feel sufficiently part of the village to call its first formal town meeting to mobilize against the Viet Cong...
...fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease the pain and a combination of rest with gentle exercises to free the joints. The doctors did not bother to order Ike to ease up on golf; they figured that if it hurt too much, he would simply stop playing...
...harmful effect upon the vast majority of members of one ethnic group; yet because of a hereditary quirk, some individuals will be made gravely ill. Best example, said Dr. Moser, is the tendency-rare in the general U.S. population-to a blood-destroying anemia that can develop after taking aspirin or phenacetin (compounded together in the familiar APC tablets), some sulfonamides, and drugs for the relief of peptic ulcer...