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Last week, for example, an FDA advisory panel recommended that the agency approve a new drug called Enbrel. The week before, the full FDA had given the nod to another anti-rheumatoid arthritis drug called Arava. Next month the agency will assess a promising blood-filtration device that clears the body of arthritis-promoting substances the same way kidney dialysis cleans the blood of toxins. Within a few months the FDA will also consider a new class of anti-inflammatories called COX-2 inhibitors (a.k.a. "super aspirin") that will attack arthritis pain. Says Steven Abramson, an FDA adviser and chief...
Once the independent counsel's 445-page report was made public, the bureau's correspondents had more hard information on the investigation, more new leads to run down and more legal and political fallout to assess...
...week later, after Giuliani had inveighed against the float and suspended or fired the firefighters involved, the New York Times went back to Broad Channel to assess the community's reaction. "Those guys on the float, I know they play with the colored people," said one Broad Channel resident. "It was all in fun. I wish every kid in the Channel could grow up like that bunch...
...your tolerance for risk is higher, try one of the concentrated mutual funds that I assess in my column near the end of this magazine, in Personal Time. Or invest in the small stocks of the Russell 2000, preferably through an index fund or an actively managed small-stock fund. These small stocks have been beaten down more than their larger brethren, despite having comparable earnings...
...timing of chemotherapy may be important for women with breast cancer. A study of 1,500 patients receiving chemotherapy either before or after surgery found that preoperative therapy shrank tumors without affecting chances of survival, allowing more patients to have lumpectomies instead of mastectomies and enabling doctors to assess more quickly how well the drugs worked...