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Certainly, second thoughts about the safety of new prescription drugs, not just Celebrex and Vioxx, are understandable. Three weeks ago, Baycol, one of the popular group of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, was recalled because of an increased risk of rare but potentially fatal muscle problems. The same side effect--albeit at even lower rates--has been seen with the five other statins that remain on the market. But so few doctors and patients seem to know about the risk that last week, the Public Citizen Health Research Group, a consumer-advocacy organization, petitioned the Food and Drug Administration...
Tuesday afternoon at a hotel in downtown Atlanta, NASCAR officials, stung by criticism of their handling of the investigation into driver Dale Earnhardt?s death six months ago, finally revealed the voluminous results of a $1 million probe into the fatal Daytona 500 crash...
...This new report did not reconcile with an earlier study that concluded Earnhardt?s fatal skull fracture came when he hit his chin, nor did it determine whether a head-and-neck restraint would have saved...
...diver, I have had frequent and always exhilarating encounters with several species of sharks--sometimes as many as 30. As an astronomer, I have commonly and excitedly viewed dozens of beautiful shooting stars. Being bitten by a shark or struck by a meteorite would be extremely serious and possibly fatal. Yet given the probability, it appears that the greater danger for our anxiety-prone society is not in the seas or the stars but in ourselves. If we are overcome by the imagined risk of unlikely death, we may miss the elusive chance to live fully. (THE REV.) WILLIAM...
...Fatal Protest...