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Cimetidine owes its origin to the discovery that there are two types of receptor sites for histamine. The familiar site, associated with hay fever and other allergies, is in the nasal passages and nearby tissues. These conditions can be treated with a variety of widely prescribed antihistamines. But the drugs have no effect on the histamine receptors in the cells that secrete acid into the stomach...
...tower builder). The doubts were soon borne out: in 1889, De Lesseps' company went bankrupt. By that time, the French had moved 50 million cubic meters of earth?two-thirds of the amount moved at Suez. In the process, some 20,000 workers died of malaria and yellow fever (whose causes were thought to be noxious jungle vapors and immoral living rather than bacteria-carrying mosquitoes). Originally known as "the Great Frenchman," De Lesseps came to be called "the Great Undertaker...
Exceedingly few people develop herpes simplex encephalitis, a brain inflammation produced by the same virus that causes, among other things, the common cold sore. Those who do are unfortunate indeed. Fever, recurrent headaches, personality changes and seizures often afflict the victim, though the disease can be definitely confirmed only by brain biopsy. Once it starts, moreover, it steadily gets worse. People with herpes encephalitis almost invariably become comatose, then die; survivors nearly always suffer brain damage, frequently so severe as to require institutionalization...
...page study on analgesics just released by the FDA, a six-member advisory panel confirms that both aspirin and acetaminophen relieve minor aches and reduce fever, but it also issues a sharp warning against extravagant claims. "Adjective-itis," FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy calls it, and urges new caveats to protect unwary consumers from potential dangers that could accompany overzealous use of analgesics. Among other things, the panel suggests...
...fuzzy and clinically dubious claims. That would mean manufacturers could no longer say their products relieve "fretfulness," "jumpy nerves," "cold symptoms" or being "under the weather." Instead, they would be limited to the assertions "for the temporary relief of occasional minor aches, pains and headache" and "for reduction of fever...