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...National AIDS Policy. Getting HIV seems not so much a death sentence as an annoying pill-taking regimen. The gay press is filled with delightful ads for HIV medications that depict healthy, happy-looking guys who seem too busy racing the Iditarod to be sick. Last month the fda actually had to order drugmakers to tone down the upbeat ads for HIV drugs--and remind readers that, oh, yeah, HIV is lethal...
...open--and closed--the border is these days. It's sleek, wide, built for speed and highly efficient: regular semis have electronic passes that let them zip right through. But the bridge is also slung with concertina wire; 55 state and federal agencies--from the irs to the FDA--have offices in town. Here only Customs and the National Guard carry side arms. The feds lack the troops to check every truck, so they inspect randomly. On an average day, about 8,000 trucks will cross here, hauling copper wire and auto parts into Mexico and bringing clock radios...
...National AIDS Policy. Getting HIV seems not so much a death sentence as an annoying pill-taking regimen. The gay press is filled with delightful ads for HIV medications that depict healthy, happy-looking guys who seem too busy racing the Iditarod to be sick. Last month the fda actually had to order drugmakers to tone down the upbeat ads for HIV drugs--and remind readers that, oh, yeah, HIV is lethal...
While so far only this bypass procedure has received the FDA's blessing, trials are under way to robotically repair the heart's valves, place pacemaker wires and stabilize irregular heartbeats. In Canada, a rival system from Computer Motion in Santa Barbara, Calif., is being tested for fetal-heart surgery. Douglas Boyd, who heads the National Center for Advanced Surgery and Robotics in London, Ont., believes that robots' minimally invasive techniques could vastly improve fetal surgery's current 90% failure rate, which he says is primarily a result of the trauma placed on the womb by traditional surgical techniques. "Robots...
...heedlessly prescribed the diet drugs "off label" (in unapproved ways); scientists who ignored early signs of trouble with fenfluramine; Food and Drug Administration officials who acted more like agents of industry than of the taxpaying public; and politicians who repaid campaign contributions from the pharmaceuticals by pressuring the FDA to rush dubious new drugs through the pipeline. Like her litigators', Mundy's language is sometimes hyperbolic. She also lets the public off a little too easily for relying on pill-popping solutions rather than changes in lifestyle. Nonetheless, she provides a read that will have you gritting your teeth...