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...which merely punted Tuesday with another quarter-point cut and another dose of boilerplate: "?the risks are weighted mainly toward conditions that may generate economic weakness in the foreseeable future." With Wall Street (not to mention the White House) begging for some kind of optimism, some indication that the Fed?s work was done and the recovery was just a matter of time, Greenspan said, in so many words (198 to be exact): We could still go either way from here...
...activity and a specific death. But, says Dr. Joan Bull, professor and director of medical oncology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, it should not be difficult to show that Courtney inflicted harm: "These patients were going through their therapy, assuming they were getting the right dose, and all the time they weren?t getting an anti-tumor response...
...Courtney?s actions, Dr. Bull adds, could easily have thrown off the intricate timing of cancer treatment. "This is a fairly dire scenario in that chemotherapy drugs are most effective against tumors at the highest dose you can get in without toxicity, and the patients who received dosage from this pharmacist obviously weren?t getting that potency...
...stamp. Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been wrestling with a problem very much like that for 25 years. In his case the letters are life-saving drugs, and the goal is to deliver them to the right place at the right dose and at the right time...
...which the drug is released can be varied using ultrasound, electric pulses and even magnetic fields. This team has recently developed the prototype of an implantable "pharmacy-on-a-chip" that they hope someday will not only monitor a patient's blood chemistry but also prescribe a carefully measured dose of the proper medicine precisely when it's needed...