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Some days the arthritis pain would get so bad that Sylvia Zebroski, 51, of Stamford, Conn., couldn't sleep. Aspirin worked for a while, but then she developed stabbing pains in her stomach. She switched to naproxen, which, like aspirin, is a so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID. Same story. "I took myself off naproxen and went to my doctor in tears," she recalls. He put her on a new experimental drug, and this time, no arthritis pain--and no stomach pain. Says Zebroski: "It's made all the difference in the world...
...class of medications that could radically alter the way in which pain is treated in the U.S. Each year 7,600 Americans die from internal bleeding caused by long-term use of NSAIDs. The new drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors, relieve pain just about as well as aspirin and its cousins but seem to have no serious side effects. With visions of $5 billion or more in potential sales over the first five years, drug companies are racing to get their own versions of these superaspirins to market first--a race that Monsanto's Celebra is likely...
...cancer patients in nursing homes are in daily pain, the largest study of its kind concluded last week. And a quarter of them, largely minorities and the very old (85 and up), don't receive any pain medication at all--not even aspirin...
PREGNANT PAUSE Women undergoing in-vitro fertilization, listen up. Federal agencies are concerned about taking aspirin in combination with the blood thinner heparin to maintain a pregnancy. Worry: risk of hemorrhage...
There was a time when a story half as ugly as Willey's would have sent aides flying for their aspirin, and their resumes. Now they know better. They've learned a lot about the elasticity of public opinion, because they've pulled and tugged and sampled and studied it like no other White House in history. "There was no panic," said an insider who watched the mobilization. "They just took a deep breath and said, 'Here we go again.'" In the morning the White House sprang its trap. By unleashing a packet of letters and phone records, gifts...