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...already there. "The market for ethnic TV in the U.S. is growing and we want to be part of it," says Hans Fink, the channel's manager. If it works, he says, Welt will expand into Canada, Latin America and anywhere else where German speakers are desperate for a dose of Deutsch. - By William Boston End Of The Road General Motors agreed to pay Fiat €1.55 billion to terminate a "put" option that could have forced GM to acquire the Italian firm's debt-laden auto division. The companies also unwound some of the their joint-venture agreements. Four...
...role to play in chronic pain. They are particularly useful, says Palmer, for elderly patients, many of whom can't tolerate the side effects of anti-inflammatories. Younger people develop tolerances to opiates more quickly than the elderly, says Palmer, which means the young wind up needing ever higher doses. That is not a big problem in older patients. "I like to use low-dose opioids in the elderly because there aren't any liver effects, there aren't any cardiac effects, and the biggest problem you have is some constipation," which you can treat. On the other hand, Palmer...
...keeps platelets from clumping together to form blood clots. Doctors believe a drop in prostacyclin may also be behind the increased incidence of heart attacks and strokes in COX-2 users. In separate studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, researchers found that high-dose Celebrex users were three times as likely as nonusers to die from a heart or stroke event, while those taking Vioxx had twice the chance of suffering a heart attack or stroke. It's too early to say whether these studies mean one drug is more dangerous than another...
...dangerously naïve among us—those who counsel “working with the president,” and hoist Tom Daschle’s political corpse as evidence of the perils of “obstructionism”—a dose of history seems in order...
...stingily dispatching the Ivy League’s two best defenses on its annual mid-Atlantic sojourn, the Crimson (12-6, 4-1 Ivy) took a share of second place and a dose of crucial mid-season adrenaline...