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...inflammatory drug and all those problems go away." To pain specialists like Palmer, the hand wringing and finger pointing over the COX-2 inhibitors are the result of expecting too much from these drugs and using them with unwise abandon. "No one's expecting a chemotherapeutic agent or a liver drug to be perfect for everyone, but because pain is so prevalent, we're all in search of that magic drug that works for everyone all the time. It's such an unrealistic burden to place on a drug...
...anti-inflammatories. Younger people develop tolerances to opiates more quickly than the elderly, says Palmer, which means the young wind up needing ever higher doses. That is not a big problem in older patients. "I like to use low-dose opioids in the elderly because there aren't any liver effects, there aren't any cardiac effects, and the biggest problem you have is some constipation," which you can treat. On the other hand, Palmer believes that the COX-2 drugs are much safer in the young than in the old. "I'll bet if you break down all those...
...made the film version in 1940. She was set to return to Hollywood, with the large role of Auntie Liang in Hunter's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, when, on Feb. 3, 1961 - 44 years ago today - she died of a heart attack following liver disease...
...between 1971 and 2001 and that 8.6 million of England's 40 million adults drink more than the government guidelines of up to four units of alcohol (equivalent to two pints of lager) a day for men and three units for women. Another report showed that deaths from chronic liver disease, a prime indicator of alcohol-related damage to health, increased ninefold between 1970 and 2000 for people aged...
...Body Worlds," which toured cities in Europe and Asia before opening in L.A. last summer, places the see-through bodies in various poses--playing basketball, practicing yoga, riding a bicycle--to show in graphic detail how the human body works. Also on display: 175 human body parts, from a liver damaged by cirrhosis to lungs diseased from smoking...