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...caller from Au Bon Pain requested that a party locked in the bathroom be removed. HUPD officers responded and removed the subject. He was also given a no trespass warning for Harvard property...
Each species of cone snail produces a unique venom that contains between 50 and 200 pharmacologically active peptides known as conotoxins. The most advanced conotoxin-derived drug in development is Elan Corp.'s Ziconotide, a nonaddictive treatment for severe chronic pain that is awaiting FDA approval. Cognetix, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently started clinical trials on a possible epilepsy treatment. Also in the works: potential therapies for schizophrenia, stroke and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases...
DIED. ARNOLD HUTSCHNECKER, 102, psychotherapist to Richard Nixon whom the President consulted by phone and twice received at the White House; in Sherman, Conn. Nixon first visited the doctor in 1951 for back pain, after reading his book on psychosomatic illnesses. Hutschnecker spoke little of his patient until after Nixon's death. The President was not seriously disturbed, he said, but exhibited many "neurotic symptoms," acceptable qualities in a leader. Hutschnecker advocated "mental-health certificates" for politicians...
Most of these drugs are genetically engineered biological molecules, and the majority are designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis and its close clinical relative, lupus. Like many other autoimmune diseases, both disorders strike women disproportionately. In RA, the immune system attacks the joints and eventually weakens the bones, causing excruciating pain, fatigue and daily bouts of fever. With lupus, the attack is far more generalized, affecting blood vessels, joints, skin and several internal organs. In severe cases, it can be lethal...
...body of large tumors. So it is likely that oncologists will put together cocktails of treatments, each using a different strategy to outfox the cancer. In the future, traditional chemotherapy will be combined with other cell-killing treatments like the COX-2 inhibitors, drugs that are chemically related to pain-killers like ibuprofen and that appear to force cancer cells to self-destruct. Chemotherapy will also be used with treatments that aim simply to stop tumors from growing, such as the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively nontoxic compounds that blunt the growth of new capillaries...