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...Americans, mostly middle-aged or older, suffering from chronic pain severe enough to interfere with daily life, figuring out which pain medications work best - and which are safest - is of crucial interest. That's why researchers have recently been taking a closer look at the class of drugs called opioids, which includes codeine, morphine and methadone - medicine's oldest and most powerful pain medications...
Much of the blame may fall on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and physician ignorance. Until 2006, FDA guidelines, which have since been revised, suggested starting pain patients on 80 mg of methadone a day - a dose that could kill people who haven't developed tolerance to this class of medications. The current recommendations call for 30 mg to start...
...Student Files Class Action Suit Against Google
...earlier version of this post stated incorrectly that an HLS student has filed a class action suit against Harvard. In fact, the student filed the suit against Google, charging that the company's new social networking tool Buzz has violated users' privacy...
...used to support the death penalty. [But] once I started doing the work, I became aware of the inequalities. I tell people that if you're going to commit murder, you want to be white, and you want to be wealthy - so that you can hire a first-class lawyer - and you want to kill a black person. And if [you are], the odds of your being sentenced to death are basically zero. It's one thing to say that rich people should be able to drive Ferraris and poor people should have to take the bus. It's very...