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Pharmacy shelves are bare, even of common-cold remedies. Doctors complain about shortages of antibiotics and approximately 200 other medications, ranging from simple Mercurochrome to sophisticated cancer and heart drugs. Aspirin has been rationed to 20 pills per person per year (40 pills for Havana residents, no doubt because of urban stress). About 10% of Cuba's 10.7 million people suffer from asthma, but asthma inhalers are almost impossible to obtain. Even such rudimentary supplies as sutures, syringes and surgical gloves are scarce, as are anesthetics. "We haven't had a simple cotton bandage to put under children's plaster...
...federal guidelines advise doctors to start patients on mild pain killers, such as aspirin, and gradually work up to stronger medications as pain intensifies...
...There's a certain amount of being disconcerted when you find out that oral contraceptives are not like popping aspirin," says Faigel, who adds that reactions to the pill vary according to the individual...
...soldiers have been reduced to bite-size beings, easily digested. The terrifying cherubim have become Kewpie-doll cherubs. For those who choke too easily on God and his rules, theologians observe, angels are the handy compromise, all fluff and meringue, kind, nonjudgmental. And they are available to everyone, like aspirin. "Each of us has a guardian angel," declares Eileen Freeman, who publishes a bimonthly newsletter called AngelWatch from her home in Mountainside, New Jersey. "They're nonthreatening, wise and loving beings. They offer help whether we ask for it or not. But mostly we ignore them...
...Three drugs given to heart-attack victims -- magnesium, nitrates and captopril (the drug just found to be good for diabetics' kidneys) -- are surprisingly ineffective. Still worth taking: aspirin, clot dissolvers and beta blockers...