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...astoundingly brazen display of belt-tightening, the giant insurance company announced Wednesday they will require member doctors to write double-strength antidepressant prescriptions - with the understanding that patients will break the tablets in half to reach their required dosage. Someone who's taking 50 milligrams of the antidepressant Zoloft, for example, would take home a prescription for 100-milligram tablets and instructions to take only half a pill a day. The 50-milligram tablets, which cost only seven cents less than the more potent pills, will no longer be covered under the plan...
...carotenoids, nutrients that may lower the risk of cancer and heart disease. In its original formulation, it also reduced the absorption of vitamins A, D, E and K and caused a condition delicately referred to as "anal leakage." And while most other artificial food additives are eaten by the milligram, olestra would be gulped grams at a time, making it what nutritionists call a "macroingredient"--it would, for example, account for about one-third, by weight, of every potato chip...
...article in the August 10 Journal of the American Medical Association titled "The Duration of Zidovudine Benefit in Persons With Asymptomativ HIV Infection" concluded that AZT, when administered at 500 milligram doses "caused a significant delay in progression to AIDS or death [in asymptomatic individuals...
After six years, Gaziano and co-workers foundthat men taking a 50-milligram beta carotene pillevery other day (about 25 times the averageintake) were only half as likely as those takingplacebo pills to suffer a heart attack, an evenbetter result than the stunning 44 percentreduction achieved with aspirin...
...Mattel Electronics' new Diet Trac, a pocket computer specially designed to keep track of your cholesterol, caloric or sodium intake. Just tell it your nutrient goals, keep it up to date on what you are eating, and it will do the counting for you, down to the last milligram. Properly programmed, it will even send you a warning BEEP, BEEP, BEEP if an overdose of sodium is imminent...