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...Boston Globe reported that a doctor at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary allegedly altered the course of his trials on an experimental eye ointment while he owned stock in the company that was set to manufacture the prospective drug...
...door and called the guard. ''May I see the doctor, please.'' ''What for?'' ''My wrists and feet are injured. I need some medicine and bandages.'' ''The doctor does not give treatment when a prisoner has been punished.'' ''In that case, perhaps you could just give me some disinfectant ointment or Mercurochrome for the wounds?'' ''No, not allowed.'' ''May I have some bandages?'' ''No.'' Even with no help, I washed my hands and took care of my injuries, and eventually they began to heal. It took me many months of intense effort to be able to raise my arms above...
Another friend tells me about the "magnetized" water and testosterone ointment he sells to folks who have seen his antiaging ads in shopping circulars. He was a brilliant pathologist; I once entrusted my patients' lives to his call on biopsy specimens. He began making a few extra bucks with naturopathics, then enough to quit real medicine altogether. I trust little about him since he started with the magnetic water because I know he knows better: he passed physics to get into med school. But now he can finally afford that Range Rover...
That day Rusty Yates noticed a nervousness in the way Andrea moved around the kitchen, setting out cereal bowls and milk for the kids. Rusty asked her to get ointment for Paul's lip, which he'd hurt at the playground. Andrea hurriedly dabbed on the gel. John asked Rusty if he could finally have his long-awaited turn going to work with him at NASA and playing games at Space Center Houston. But Rusty had a space-shuttle design meeting that morning and was not in the mood to take John along. He told him to stay with Mommy...
...coalition troops.) The U.S. Army has asked Schultz and his company, Quick-Med Technologies of Gainesville, Fla., to develop a dressing that could be used to treat sulfur-mustard blisters. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has ordered up $1 million worth of research into a mustard-gas ointment. "It's all the same technology," says Schultz. "It's just adapted for different uses...