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...long, but so far the data look good. Two more COX-2 inhibitors, Arcoxia (from Merck) and Prexige (from Novartis), are awaiting FDA approval. "Obviously, we now have to look more carefully at the other members of the class," says Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who voiced his concerns about Vioxx several years...
...LIKES TO BOAST that he knows a word or two in several foreign languages. He might be better off if he didn't try to use them all at once. A few weeks ago, Ronzone, director of international scouting for the NBA champion Detroit Pistons, appeared at a basketball clinic in Mexico, where he attempted to teach a young Spanish-speaking prospect how best to position himself around the rim. "Demand the qiu!" Ronzone shouted. "Get your cerveza under the basket!" Qiu (pronounced chee-yo) is Chinese for ball. Cerveza means beer in Spanish. Ronzone may have confused cerveza with...
...August, he buried the corpses deep in the ground, hoping to halt the bird flu ravaging his village in northwest Thailand. It didn't work. Later that month, his 11-year-old niece Sakuntala Premphasri developed a stomachache and a high fever. When Somsak took her to a nearby clinic on Sept. 2, nurses dismissed her illness as a common cold. Five days later Sakuntala was back in the clinic, unable to walk and vomiting blood. She was sent to the district hospital, and her mother, Pranee Thongchan, was summoned from Bangkok to comfort her. Pranee kissed and held...
...daughter's funeral, according to several witnesses, Pranee looked ill and complained of tiredness. "We thought it was because of the stress of losing her daughter," says a villager. Pranee visited a clinic, but like her child, was sent home, and then returned to Bangkok. Less than two weeks later, Pranee died of bird flu, the country's 10th confirmed victim of the disease?but one with a major distinction. On Sept. 28, a joint World Health Organization (WHO) and Thai investigation announced what scientists studying the H5N1 bird-flu virus had long feared: Pranee hadn't contracted the disease...
...Toxic Politics UKRAINE A criminal inquiry and a parliamentary commission will investigate claims by opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko that he was poisoned. Yushchenko, who is in a close race with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych for elections on Oct. 31, became ill on Sept. 6. Doctors at a Vienna clinic where he underwent tests could neither confirm nor rule out poisoning. Join the Club TURKEY Ankara moved a step closer to joining the E.U. as European Commissioner for Enlargement Günter Verheugen, following a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, announced that there were...