Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since the drug must be given alone in Phase I so that the results are interpretable...no one has seen one hundred percent of tumors regress and disappear when these drugs are given alone," he says. "These are often end-stage cancer patients with tumors that have become modified by many past chemical and radiation therapies...
Gergen, who graduated from the law school in 1967, cited American Bar Association statistics indicating that 15 to 20 percent of all lawyers suffer from alcoholism and drug abuse--twice the national average--and a Johns Hopkins study which found that law is the leading profession in incidence of depression in America...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III releases a letter condemning final clubs, citing drug deals and sexual harassment complaints as reasons for students to avoid them...
...medicine is risk-free. A potent reminder of the fact came Wednesday when the Food and Drug Administration issued a restrictive public health advisory to the nation?s doctors concerning the popular antibiotic Trovan. The agency acted after receiving reports of 140 cases of liver damage among Trovan users since February 1998. Fourteen of the cases involved acute liver failure in which six patients died. The agency effectively pulled the prescription drug from general pharmacy shelves and instructed doctors to restricts its use to emergency situations in hospitals and nursing homes -- that is, in those instances where the need...
...This is something that does happen from time to time,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. ?Once in the marketplace, a drug is used by millions of people, but during clinical trials, it is tested on only a few thousand people. So occasionally a small risk will get missed in the trials.? Beyond highlighting the fact that safety watchdogs need to continually update the risk-benefit analysis of the drugs they approve, the Trovan incident also underscores a more ominous development. ?We are running into more and more germs that are proving resistant,? says Gorman, ?and as a result...