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...prescribed sleeping pill in the world. In 1990 American pharmacists filled more than 7 million orders. Satisfied customers include Secretary of State James Baker, who finds Halcion handy on long plane trips. "Time for a blue bomb," he sometimes announces before naps, referring to the color of a 0.25-mg Halcion pill...
...does diabetes create havoc in the body? While people without the disease keep blood sugar within a narrow range (60 mg to 120 mg per deciliter of blood), those with diabetes frequently boast levels three times as high. Just how excess sugar causes damage remains a topic of debate. One plausible mechanism has been suggested by Dr. Michael Brownlee, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Glucose, Brownlee observes, is chemically active, combining with proteins in the blood and blood-vessel walls. Over time, these sticky fragments aggregate to form what Brownlee calls "biological superglue." Like...
...lowering cholesterol levels is the master key to reversing heart disease. Dr. William Castelli, director of the famed Framingham Study, which since 1948 has monitored the coronary health of 5,000 people in the Massachusetts town, offers this prescription for regression: reduce the level of total cholesterol below 150 mg per deciliter of blood and the level of LDL, the bad form of cholesterol that clogs arteries, below 90. In addition, says Castelli, the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL, the good cholesterol that helps clear arteries, should be less than...
...Little Ducc" went on his first "mission," a drive-by shooting, as an observer when he was twelve. Freshly inducted into a local Crip gang, he drove in a sedan he describes as a GTA as casually as if he were saying GTO or MG, though it is police parlance for "grand theft auto" -- a stolen car. He is 14 now, in juvenile detention, and mainly remembers the noise. "A lot of yelling, some shooting, and then the police sirens." He never knew what prompted the attack. His "homeboys" had brought him along to test his mettle, and he acquitted...
...patients, a 66-year-old writer suffering from a gastrointestinal cancer, came seeking help in committing suicide. He said he had the pills: 60 capsules, 200 mg each, of Seconal. But surgery left him with trouble swallowing, and he wondered if there was a better way to go. In this case it was not so much the physical pain of the cancer that plagued him; it was the mental burden of a lingering illness. "This long farewell performance gets to be a drag on people," the patient said. "It's just not the way you want to see yourself behaving...