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...Fifty of the illnesses were considered "moderate" by hospital authorities; 116, or nearly two-thirds, were severe or potentially life-threaten ing. Eleven proved fatal. Interaction between drugs (prescribed in some cases by different physicians) accounted for 56 of the admissions. But 121 were caused by a single drug. Aspirin alone accounted...
...medicine has found no cure for the hangover, although aspirin can alleviate the headache. Despite a plethora of folk cures (none of them really effective), the best policy is to avoid drinking in excess the night before. Actually, no one knows exactly what causes the hangover's unpleasant symptoms of headache, nausea, depression and fatigue, which many drinkers experience at one time or another...
Most slipped discs can be treated successfully by the prescription of bed rest or aspirin or other painkillers. If the pain persists, doctors frequently perform a laminectomy, a delicate surgical procedure in which the disc is removed from between two vertebrae, which are then fused together. But in many cases, chymopapain may now provide an alternative to surgery. The enzyme injected into the disc breaks down the ground substance, enabling it and the water to escape and be absorbed by the body. That causes the disc to shrink back into place, thus easing the pressure on the surrounding nerves...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services, announces that in order to speed up service UHS will give band-aids and aspirin to all students who present five sworn affidavits testifying to their strength of character and steadfastness of purpose...
...some forty years I have not experienced any kind of bodily pain. I have had no colds, no headaches, no sickness, no insomnia, and if I ever take an aspirin tablet, it will be the first one; nothing to see a doctor about. I am the mother knows best." --From a profile of Maurice Kramer...