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...drug, marketed by Burroughs Wellcome Co., under the brand name Zovirax, has been available in ointment form since 1982. "This is not a cure," emphasizes Virologist Stephen Straus, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who directed one of the studies. But, he notes, "nothing in the past has been able to suppress recurring herpes...
...combat hypertension: minoxidil, made by Upjohn. It proved to have the bizarre side effect of promoting hair growth everywhere on the body, probably because it increases blood supply to the hair follicles. Trying to make a virtue of necessity, Upjohn began a number of studies in which minoxidil ointment was rubbed onto the scalp. In Washington, D.C., early this month, Dr. Hideo Uno, of the University of Wisconsin, reported that "minoxidil stopped the natural process of balding" in monkeys that normally lose their hair. So far, results in humans have been less clear-cut. "There is no question that minoxidil...
...down Pennsylvania Avenue to Justice after a laborious detour on Capitol Hill before the Senate Judiciary committee. Meese's apparent involvement in or knowledge of the Reagan camp's acquisition of covert Carter campaign papers in 1980 promised, by itself, to be only a minor fly in the confirmation ointment. But then came the money...
...Hart's ointment is former mentor McGovern, who carried only Massachusetts in his 1972 presidential...
...wages of sin is death," says the Good Book, and "the gift of God is eternal life." But the wages of sin last week seemed to be the gift of Greeley. Priest-Author Andrew Greeley, 55, has long been a gadfly in the ointment of the Roman Catholic Church, and he hardly improved matters when he started writing novels (The Cardinal Sins, Thy Brother's Wife) luridly laced with most of the seven deadly ones. Now he has taken royalties from his books and pledged $1.25 million to establish a chair in Catholic studies at the University of Chicago...