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...whether based on "business" or fears that stocking the pill will offend Wal-Mart's oft-conservative customers in rural areas, is it appropriate for a pharmacy to stop dispensing a legal medication? "Imagine, for instance," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "if for business reasons the company had decided not to dispense insulin" -- would Wal-Mart?s decision be ethically supportable? "This is a dangerous, slippery-slope situation," says Gorman. By the way, although the company will no longer be dispensing Preven, it will still be selling Viagra...
...what should parents do? First thing, says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, is to stay calm. "Don?t panic over the study," she says. While the research may ultimately shed light on the importance of darkness during sleep, for the moment "this is just an observational study," says Gorman, "and observational studies are famous for falling apart upon further investigation." The scientists wanted to conduct "quick and dirty" research, says Gorman, to learn if nighttime lighting was worth looking into as a source of increasing levels of myopia. They didn?t impose some key controls on the research, such...
...gene called DAM in a certain strain of salmonella disabled the bacteria?s ability to cause disease in mice. The altered bacteria also went on to act like a vaccine, apparently activating the mouse?s immune system to make antibodies. The group?s research, says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, underscores "a new push to see whether there is a design way around the bacteria problem...
...While the results are tantalizing, Gorman cautions that they are far from conclusive, and years away from being proved safe and effective for human application. "Mouse models," she says, "don?t always work in humans." Moreover, tinkering with genes poses special problems. "We don?t know what the consequences are of disabling this gene," says Gorman. "Could it have consequences, for example, on a similar gene in the human body?" Until these more exotic endeavors pan out, Gorman emphasizes that one of the best ways to shore up our current defenses against bacteria may be simply to stop undercutting them...
...missing link to the reasoning,? says Gorman, ?is that although eggs do contain cholesterol, it turns out they do not increase cholesterol in the bloodstream that much.? The bigger contributors are foods with saturated fats and trans-fatty acids. And so the problem does not turn out to be eggs so much as ?how eggs are consumed in the U.S. -- as in eggs with bacon,? says Gorman. If people insist on eating their eggs with meats, whole milk or doughnuts, they will be heading for trouble. And the latest study does include one major caveat for egg lovers: Stay away...