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...shakes the earth. Flames spark through the night sky like fireworks. It's either July 4th or Sept. 11th. More like the latter, because devastation and hysteria have engulfed lower Manhattan. Then, in flash glimpses, we see the cause of the carnage. A scaly tail, long as a city block and wide as a boulevard. A furtive figure 25 stories big. Whatever the thing is, it's alien, it's odd-looking and it's royally pissed...
...becoming clear, for example, that statins, an $18 billion market in the U.S., may lower the risk of heart disease by doing more than just lowering cholesterol - studies have shown that statins can also lower inflammatory factors that can aggravate plaques, causing them to burst and block heart arteries, as well as reduce amounts of triglycerides, a particularly dangerous form of fat for the heart. "The bottom line is that we just don't know what Vytorin does, because we don't have the clinical trials," he says. "We know Vytorin blocks absorption of cholesterol. But what else does...
...Whipped in Iowa by Huckabee - a former Baptist minister with a parson's demeanor and a cobra's bite - Romney foundered in New Hampshire on a block of granite named McCain. When the Associated Press called the New Hampshire race shortly after the polls closed, McCain's volunteers screamed for joy, but the candidate's mood was more muted. McCain had spent the previous 24 hours superstitiously re-creating the trappings of his smashing New Hampshire win eight years ago - sleeping in the same hotel room, wearing the same emerald green sweater and so on. "I guess more nostalgia...
...been over a decade in the making, but the science behind it goes back much further. In the 1950s, researchers developed a vaccine to block fatal overdoses of the heart drug digitalis. In the 1970s University of Chicago researchers prompted monkeys to develop antibodies to heroin by attaching molecules of the drug to a protein from cow's blood. It was this model on which Kosten, who became interested in solving addiction as a medical student at Cornell, based TA-CD. Using the cholera bacterium as a vector is a crucial tweak in design; it allows the cocaine vaccine...
...vaccine against cocaine, the heroin vaccine faces a tricky complication: It may interfere with other important treatments. If its protection extends to other opiates, for example, it would prevent patients from responding to medically necessary drugs like morphine. The same potential concern applies to nicotine vaccines that may block normal nerve transmissions involving nicotinic receptors in the brain, which play a role in muscle movement, Cohen says...