Word: bypassers
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...mock Montrachet is probably reaching retailers through "gray-market" sales that bypass the U.S. distribution system, according to Wilson Daniels Ltd., DRC's American distributor, which denies any connection to the fakes. The counterfeiters produced a remarkable copy of a legitimate DRC bottle, perhaps by using a desktop computer. But a sharp-eyed Japanese consumer noticed that the vineyard designations on his bottles of Montrachet, vouching for the wine's authenticity, actually listed the name of a DRC red wine, and alerted Wilson Daniels. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating...
Even after complications develop, the prognosis is not unrelentingly grim. Laser surgery is saving eyesight. Bypass surgery is salvaging hearts and feet. Dialysis machines and organ transplants are pinch-hitting for nonfunctioning kidneys. Most important, insulin pumps and home-monitoring kits are enabling diabetics to control their blood-sugar levels more precisely than ever before. With good control, diabetic women, once cautioned not to have children, are now delivering healthy babies. Says Dr. Gordon Weir, medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center: "Patients are finally tuning in to the fact that high blood sugar is serious business...
...reduce both levels, such as the one promoted by the American Heart Association, may actually harm women, Crouse argues. The dearth of data on women and heart disease may also have contributed to an alarming problem: women are significantly more likely than men to die after they undergo heart-bypass surgery. One reason, suggested a study last spring, is that doctors are slower to spot serious heart trouble in their female patients and slower to recommend surgery...
...many cases, bypass surgery or angioplasty will remain the strategy of choice. There are those with advanced heart disease, says Blankenhorn, "who clearly can't wait. If they try therapy alone when they really need surgery, they can have a disastrous outcome -- a catastrophic heart attack." But others, with less serious cases, may be able to avoid surgery -- if they are willing to make radical changes in their diet and life-style...
While trials beginning in the 1950s had shown that drugs and diet could reverse atherosclerosis in laboratory animals, Blankenhorn's groundbreaking work, begun in 1980, was the first controlled study demonstrating that the same results could be produced in humans. His subjects were 188 nonsmoking males who had undergone bypass surgery. (Most heart-disease research has been done on men rather than women.) Blankenhorn placed half of them on a diet containing 22% fat and gave them colestipol and large doses of niacin, both standard cholesterol-reducing drugs. The other recruits, the control group, merely limited the fat content...