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...supposed to be an innocent bystander responsible for "housekeeping" functions--like preventing ulcers. At the FDA meeting, proponents of the old-style pain killers suggested that that theory might be too simplistic. "The whole area of information about cox-1 and -2 is an evolving field," says Dr. Robert Palmer of SmithKline Beecham, which manufactures Relafen, a popular arthritis drug. "There's probably a whole lot of functions we don't know about...
Tell that to Dr. Philip Needham, father of the cox-2 inhibitor, who calls the white paper Palmer presented to the FDA panel "a predictable effort to protect their drug." If you want evidence that Celebrex works, he says, just ask the 13,000 arthritis patients who took part in its trial. "We're getting letters saying, 'Please don't take us off,'" Needham says. And the side effects? Pretty close to placebo levels...
Such rival brands are emphasizing their quality to health seekers like Shirley Palmer, 66, a Los Angeles writer who pops ginkgo and ginseng and a handful of vitamins on the say-so of friends and news reports. "I have no evidence that these things really work," Palmer says. "I take them on faith." But they keep her away from the doctor, she says, and that's good because "I don't have time to sit around waiting in doctors' offices." Like Palmer, millions of Americans are using ancient remedies to broaden the range of modern health-care choices. And these...
...herbal preparations lull you into ignoring serious problems. "A lot of my patients with hepatitis C take milk thistle," says Dr. Melissa Palmer, a liver specialist in Plainview, N.Y. "It seems to normalize their liver-function tests, but it doesn't affect the underlying disease...
...athletes make so much money, it's just a job for them," says Jonathon Meir, 14, of Incline Village, Nev. His friend Tyler McPherron, 14, adds that he associates football with "a bunch of old guys sitting on the couch and drinking beer." Snowboard and mountain-bike legend Shaun Palmer agrees, pointing out that individualistic extreme sports are "a lot better than going to football practice every day and having your coach yell...