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Sooner or later we all discover that our arms just aren't long enough to read anymore. You know the problem. You can't focus on the small type in books and magazines and on aspirin bottles at your normal reading distance, and so you start moving the print farther and farther away. If you haven't already experienced this trombone effect, don't worry, you will. Starting around age 40, the lenses in most people's eyes start to weaken. You begin to lose the ability to focus on things close up and have to resort to bifocals...
...ASPIRIN EFFECT Popping an aspirin each day to ward off a heart attack? Don't be so sure it will work. Aspirin should reduce the tendency of platelets to stick together and muck up arterial walls, but a provocative new finding suggests that high cholesterol levels may interfere with that. In 60% of patients with high cholesterol, aspirin had no effect on platelets, and is therefore unlikely to help the heart...
...Matthew. Don Fletcher is right. "Kakistocracy. Are you familiar with that word?" Fletcher asked while nursing his coffee at the Bill O' Fare. "It means government by the worst elements. We've got a failed drug war the candidates won't talk about, and we bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan because Bill was [dallying with] Monica. It doesn't matter whether you vote Republican or Democratic. Nothing will change because the government is run by big-money interests...
...companies did propose certain restrictions. Even with over-the-counter approval, statins would not be available on drugstore shelves next to cold medications and aspirin. A patient would have to produce a blood test for a pharmacist showing that his or her cholesterol levels met whatever the eventual criteria would be for moderately high levels. Only the pharmacist would be able to review that test and dispense the drug. But a panel of experts was unconvinced, and advised the fda last summer to deny the petition, at least until further studies are completed...
Many questions remain unanswered. Researchers have shown, for example, that taking an aspirin a day can reduce a heart patient's risk of suffering a heart attack. Would combining aspirin with a statin have a synergistic effect, or is one better than the other in preventing heart disease? Similarly, many cardiologists are impressed by the ability of another group of drugs, called ACE inhibitors, to normalize high blood pressure and reduce the strain on the heart. Would they work better alone or in combination with other drugs...