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...important to know that these signs aren't specific for a heart attack and may be caused by another condition. The classic case of mistaken identity is when a patient suffering from acute heartburn confuses a backflow of stomach acid with a developing cardiac arrest (although you should be wary of any "heartburn" that doesn't go away or gets worse as you walk around). Tension and injuries in the chest muscles can also be mistaken for angina...
...away. Some months after Carl and Nora and I sat up all night, Richard Nixon declared that his mother was a saint, and flew away to San Clemente. Carl and Nora were married, had two children, and then were rather vividly divorced. Nora wrote a novel about it, "Heartburn." Hollywood made a movie of "All the President's Men," wherein Deep Throat looks nothing like the seal-sleek John Sears. History's image of Deep Throat became the gaunt and shadowy Hal Holbrook, in the same way that, for purposes of myth, Carl has half-dissolved into Dustin Hoffman...
Traditionally, nonprescription drugs have been limited to treating mild and temporary conditions like headaches and heartburn. But the FDA is weighing the possibility of letting stores sell medicines that treat symptomless lifetime conditions like high cholesterol and osteoporosis--as many other Western nations do. The agency could go so far as to make birth-control pills and antibiotics as accessible as aspirin. That's too far for some critics, who express concern about our nonchalant, pill-popping approach to medicines. Does anyone even read a label? they...
...will surely cut into Pravachol's sales, justifying Bristol-Myers' push for OTC too. An added benefit: a switch could give the maker exclusive selling rights on the drug for three more years. That's why medicines like the hair-loss treatment Rogaine (owned by Pharmacia Corp.) and the heartburn reliever Tagamet (SmithKline Beecham) moved from prescription to OTC before their patents expired. Although prices fall, unit volumes usually increase, removing some of the sting...
...particularly suspicious of any "heartburn" that gets worse if you walk around or otherwise exert yourself physically. "One of my [heart attack] patients ordered out for miso soup to treat her 'indigestion,'" says Dr. Marianne Legato, director of the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia in New York City and author of The Female Heart. "Fortunately, her daughter stopped by, noticed her ashen color and slurred speech and got her to the hospital...