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...Take two aspirins and call me in the morning." Those familiar words, spoken as often by jesting laymen these days as by doctors, still contain more than a grain of truth. Some 75 years after its introduction, aspirin remains the world's leading painkiller, used for easing aches of every type, from headache to hangover, arthritis to athlete's elbow...
During the months and even years when the disease is in a mild stage, the patient may need only aspirin-or no treatment at all. But when lupus flares up, doctors resort to more powerful weapons. Corticosteroids are commonly used to control inflammations. Skin rashes can be reduced by antimalarial drugs, and even the immune system's rampaging white cells can be brought under control by some of the same potent drugs used against cancer cells...
...certain joints. In any case, the lack of a clear understanding of many of arthritis' manifestations has complicated treatment; everything from corticosteroids to copper bracelets and special diets has been tried by sufferers. But the most common-and sometimes the best-therapy involves nothing more exotic than aspirin...
...true that the Lord slept late on the seventh day. He woke up around noon, took two aspirin for his hangover and then ate a brunch consisting of scrambled eggs, bagels and lox. Afterward, He relaxed by lying on the living room sofa but He soon became bored because there was nothing to do. You see, He had not yet created the Sunday comics or television so He could not watch the playoffs...
...that it planned to ban noncaloric saccharin as a food additive (TIME, March 21). Last week the FDA decided to hedge a little. Newly appointed Commissioner Donald Kennedy announced that the agency will go ahead with the ban, probably by midsummer -but will allow saccharin to be sold, like aspirin, as an over-the-counter drug, at least until the end of the year...