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...billions of dollars in damages from the tobacco and asbestos industries, would file suits against cell-phone makers and wireless-phone companies. Cell-phone stocks wobbled. Although Angelos' firm later said no filing was imminent, it has been carefully studying the issue. Angelos has also joined counsel for Baltimore neurologist Christopher Newman, who brought an $800 million suit against Motorola and several wireless carriers for allegedly causing the baseball-size brain cancer near his ear that has left him permanently disabled...
...therapeutic arsenal has to be considered slim. Of all the compounds his team brings forward, says Molinoff, only 10% to 15% manage to pass the rigorous series of tests that lead to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And even when they do, Harvard University neurologist Dr. Kenneth Kosik emphasizes, precious few new drugs prove to be anything close to magic bullets. Indeed, Kosik, along with many others, thinks it is quite likely that controlling Alzheimer's disease will require more than one type of drug. In addition to compounds that inhibit plaques, for example, patients may need...
...vital roles in other aspects of cellular metabolism, so that interfering with them will come at the price of serious side effects. For another, it is still far from proven that beta amyloid is as central to Alzheimer's disease as, say, cholesterol is to heart disease. Says molecular neurologist Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop of the University of Toronto: "We have a theory and experimental data that support that theory, but we won't know the theory is right until we have a drug that actually prevents Alzheimer's disease...
Unfortunately, says Dr. Kathleen Foley, an attending neurologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, not all pain can be controlled. "But you know what?" she says. "We'll never do anything if we don't try." And no one can even begin to help you until you say where and how much it hurts...
...newest alternative to HRT has won FDA approval, but for a different condition. It's a drug called gabapentin, okayed in 1993 to treat seizures but commonly used for relief from migraines and chronic pain. In a study of five women taking gabapentin, neurologist Thomas Guttuso Jr. of the University of Rochester reported an 87% reduction in hot-flash frequency. But Guttuso admits his study is too small to be more than just an interesting first step. Besides, gabapentin can have unpleasant side effects; patients taking it have complained of feeling sedated...