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Because of such advances, the fledgling self-care industry is in robust health. Last year revenues from home tests totaled about $800 million, according to Creative Strategies Research. One industry leader, Warner-Lambert (1984 sales: $3.2 billion), predicts the home health-kit market will grow 27% annually for the next five years. C.B. Fleet's kits for detecting blood in the stool--a possible sign of colitis, ulcers and colon cancer --doubled after President Reagan underwent surgery in July for the removal of a polyp from his colon...
...There was a small mercury spill in Science Center room 212. The area was cleaned up with a mercury spill kit...
...older Americans have called their doctors for colorectal screening examinations. During the first week after his condition was announced, the American Cancer Society's Washington telephone hotline, which normally handles two or three requests a week, fielded 1,500 inquiries. The callers were asking for the free home kit that tests for blood in the stool, a sign that may indicate the presence of cancer. Like other cancer clinics across the U.S., the Chicago-based Portes Center is logging some 400 appointments a week, almost triple the usual rate...
...Meter Is Running Out After a decade of trying to legislate Europe's gas and electric suppliers into a single competitive market, the European Commission last week laid out its tool kit, ready to dismantle the faulty parts. The E.C.'s competition director general Philip Lowe announced that an investigation into Europe's energy markets would begin next month. Their goal: to find out why liberalization laws have done little to lower prices or loosen the grip of many incumbent operators across the Continent. Industrial customers, in theory, have the right to choose their supplier, and by 2007 all consumers...
...launch of his pricey line of skin-care potions. (Perricone just opened a flagship store on Manhattan's Madison Avenue last month.) At-home alternatives to dermatological procedures have also hit big. Last June, for example, L'Oréal Paris launched ReFinish, a $25 microdermabrasion kit; it's the brand's most expensive--and successful--skin-care product to date...