Word: fens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: TIME science writer Christine Gorman says despite fresh evidence that downing diet drugs Redux and fen-phen could cause heart-valve damage, it's not time to outlaw the pills. "This study raises a red flag that says this has to be looked into more closely," notes Gorman. "But it does not say the drugs should be banned or that the link is definitive...
...since the older treatment has been on the market, clinics have sprung up all over the U.S., especially in the Los Angeles area, to distribute Redux to eager customers. One chain alone, California Weight Loss Medical Associates, has 19 centers and a catchy toll-free number (1-888-4FEN-FEN) that it advertises in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News and on Howard Stern's syndicated radio show. Some places offer discounts for customers who buy in bulk. Many, says Dr. Michael Myers, an obesity expert in Los Alamitos, California, hand out prescriptions for fen/phen "like...
Officer John Okane, who was patrolling near the Harvard Medical School, observed a man who appeared agitated and was trying to interfere with firefighters who had been called to the blaze at 46 Fen-wood Road...
...Media? The democratization of communications, from CNN to MTV to C-SPAN, means that these dinosaurs can now be bypassed. Congress? A fen of stagnant waters, a den of special interests. To the town hall...