Word: mildly
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...result, fenfluramine went nowhere for years. In the late 1980s, though, pharmacologist Dr. Michael Weintraub of the University of Rochester hit on the idea of adding a mild amphetamine-like drug, phentermine, to fenfluramine. The combination, dubbed fen/phen, didn't put most people to sleep; if anything, it perked them up. And in 1992 Weintraub and colleagues published a series of studies that showed fen/phen to be an astonishingly effective appetite suppressant. Patients lost an average of 30 lbs. within a matter of months, while those who took a placebo and exercised and dieted rigorously didn't come close...
Then Interneuron went after and got FDA approval--a ruling that critics charge was made with unseemly--and perhaps even unprofessional--haste. Says Lewis Seiden, a University of Chicago pharmacologist who testified before the FDA advisory committee: "The procedures were loose, to be mild about...
...mild surprise in an otherwise predictable day, but it passed quickly--the First Daughter had gone in a flash, and the normal pace of lunch resumed. I doubted that he had really seen her; there didn't seem to be a security entourage any-where. But it started me thinking--the last I had heard of Chelsea Clinton, she was just a little child about to embark on her adolescent adventures in the public eye. I remembered the ugly things that had been written and said about her in the press, all those phrases with the words 'pubescent...
From headache sufferers to cancer patients, 50 million Americans live with pain, sometimes mild, sometimes crippling. Researchers are currently testing, in animals, a more convenient and safer way to deliver relief. Taking their cue from the birth-control implant Norplant, which is inserted under the skin and provides long-term contraceptive protection, researchers have packed a button-size insert with a powerful narcotic. Implanted under the skin, the device releases analgesic into the bloodstream continuously for three months. Tests on cancer patients will begin within a year...
...Myers-Briggs personality-type assessment system used by management consultants, Gore tests out as a mild introvert, which his flesh-pressing boss could never be. Gore loves preparing for meetings with foreign leaders, attending Clinton's national-security briefings, or patiently explaining chaos theory and fractals to staff members as they work all night at his house on an M.I.T. graduation speech, surrounded by note cards and bits of paper stuck on easels. "For him it's like golf. He loves it!" concludes an aide. But beneath this wonkish exterior, the President has found a smart politico. After...