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Doctors worked overtime trying to calm the nerves of panicky epilepsy patients after the Food and Drug Administration announced that a popular new drug had been linked to two fatal cases of aplastic anemia. Researchers say that the odds of contracting the rare form of anemia are about 1 in 5,000 and that the drug, called Felbatol, could still prove to be the best choice for some patients...
...prospect of contracting a fatal illness apparently isn't enough to deter most people from engaging in unsafe sex, a new study suggests. European researchers found that, in a sample of 256 couples in which one partner was infected with the AIDS virus, 52 percent did not regularly use condoms for vaginal or anal intercourse. The study will be published tomorrow in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...Altman, the new accounts of his disclosures to the White House could prove fatal. "Mr. Altman forgot," Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri told TIME, "that his job is to serve the nation, not just his old friend. Therefore, I believe his time is up and it's time...
...Fatal Fires and Floods...
...immediate aftermath of this disaster, fire fighters paused to mourn their fallen comrades and to try to explain, to themselves and others, what it is about their work that proves so attractive and sometimes so fatal. On the playing field of the Glenwood Springs Middle School, fresh crews assembled the day after the blowup, waiting to relieve those who were still trying to extinguish the deadly Storm King fire. John Murray, boss of the Chief Mountain Hotshots, a Blackfoot Indian contingent out of Browning, Montana, mused, "The fire gets in your blood. You want to seek out danger and defeat...