Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhage during its first three months should not lead to any hasty conclusions, warns TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. So far, it is unclear how the new data on deaths and severe reactions, first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, is related to the drug, or whether other factors may be involved. Celebrex, the first of a new class of Cox-2 inhibitors to hit the U.S. market, has taken off nearly as explosively as Viagra did, with some 2.5 million Celebrex prescriptions written in its first 13 weeks (compared with Viagra's record...
...driving forces of the merger wave are globalization and Europe's new single currency. Globalization has forced companies to compare their performance with other firms, in their business worldwide. Drug companies, for example, have to compare development and production costs whether they are based in Sweden, France or the U.S. The result: executives slash costs, by combining overlapping operations...
...versatile compound is endostatin, a human protein that inhibits angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels in the body. In tests reported in 1997 by Folkman, a prominent cancer researcher who pioneered the study of angiogenesis, the drug had reduced and even eradicated tumors in laboratory mice. How? By stunting the growth of capillaries necessary for nourishing the burgeoning mouse tumors...
...drug that is apparently effective against tumors also reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke? The answer lies in the composition of plaque, the fatty deposit that builds up in arteries and can eventually clog them. Plaque consists of a mix of cholesterol, white blood cells and smooth muscle cells, and as it accumulates, a network of capillaries sprouts from the artery walls to nourish the cells. Could endostatin halt the growth of capillaries and starve the plaque...
...findings are particularly alarming because they arrived the same week as the results of a survey showing that American children seem to be taking up cigarettes at ever younger ages. The National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education, based in Atlanta, reported that 4% of fourth-graders, 7% of fifth-graders and nearly 15% of sixth-graders had already smoked. Add to this the more than 3 million teenagers with the habit, and you have a major health problem...