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...wonder drug has made a wondrous comeback. In recent years it has been shown to be a powerful inhibitor of heart attacks and strokes -- a virtue neither acetaminophen nor ibuprofen can match. And last week came preliminary evidence of another major benefit: aspirin reduces the risk of death from colon cancer, a disease that kills 50,000 Americans a year. A major study by the American Cancer Society, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that people who took 16 aspirin tablets or more each month (or equivalent doses of related but lesser known anti-inflammatory drugs...
...increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading" of 245 lbs. per sq. ft., twice the weight carried by the commercial Boeing 747. The added weight means the plane is prone to stall when the pilot attempts complex escape maneuvers. New stall- inhibitor and stabilization mechanisms will ease the problem but will make it more difficult for the B-1B to execute maneuvers vital to survival. Pilots complain that the heavy load makes the aircraft "fly like an elephant...
Block says the main inhibitor to greater usage is the expense. "The cost of computer graphics equipment is half the cost of the computer itself...
...pressure, while another raises it. One dilates bronchial tubes, a second constricts them. One promotes the inflammatory process, another inhibits it. A type called thromboxanes, discovered in platelets by Samuelsson in 1973, helps blood to clot; prostacyclin, a PG identified by Vane in 1976, is the most powerful natural inhibitor of clotting...
...second important underlying premise is the notion that individuals have a right to expect certain services from government. In America, to depend too much on government is seen as a weakness and an inhibitor of freedom. At the simplest level, the logical development of this attitude ensures the freedom to starve or to die of ill-health, through inability to pay the doctor's bills. There is certainly a relationship between the values of a society and the form of its healthcare delivery system. Perhaps Europeans have less cultural and ideological inhibitions in allocating certain tasks to the state...