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Using a drug to treat a disorder for which it was not intended--a practice known as off-label prescribing--may sound like dangerous medicine. But it is surprisingly widespread and has become a hot issue, both in the medical community and in the U.S. Congress. The American Medical Association estimates that 40% to 60% of all prescriptions in the U.S. are written for drugs being used for something other than their approved purpose. Now drug companies have started campaigning for the right to promote their products' unofficial benefits, and their lobbying effort is likely to be well received...
While Weld may be eager to label Fried as a conservative powerhouse, his ideological impact on the court remains to be seen...
...participants. The Part B premium, for example, was originally intended to finance half the cost of the health care it provides. But now it covers less than a third. Raising the premium, at least for better-off beneficiaries, seems fair enough. The seniors lobby is geared up to label any such change a "tax increase on the elderly," which is unfair, since it is actually a reduction in the subsidy they are receiving. (It is fitting revenge, though, on the conservatives who now propose it, since they have been quick to label many a similar subsidy reduction...
...Kraft macaroni and cheese as a quick and easy children's breakfast. But at first the sheer abundance of an American supermarket can be overwhelming. Pausing before an array of 22 varieties of bread crumbs, Raftery soothes her bewildered charges: "Use any kind you want to. Just read the label to make sure there's nothing artificial...
...complicated motives of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, I find it extremely hard to believe that either president acted out of some idealistic desire to protect basic human rights and democracy in Panama or Kuwait. The motives behind their actions seem almost transparent, and it is tempting to label them nothing but materialistic...