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...host of safer and more effective drug-delivery systems, many of them also designed to overcome the pain and inconvenience of traditional remedies. They range from such low-tech items as anal suppositories to innerspace-age microcraft reminiscent of the tiny ship that carried Raquel Welch through a patient's blood vessels in the movie Fantastic Voyage...
...which causes many diabetics, for example, to delay necessary injections of insulin. One such device is the Mosquito, a small disk equipped with a tiny needle that penetrates only seven micrometers into the skin--not deep enough to impinge on nerve endings and cause pain. Attached to a patient's side, the disk allows mobility while it delivers the prescribed dose of drug evenly over a 24-hour period...
Some of the new drug-delivery solutions are elegant but decidedly low tech. "For people who have a tough time swallowing pills," says Langer, "a company called Alkermes has developed a special straw that is loaded with a premeasured dose of dry medication. The patient then uses the straw to sip water, a soft drink or apple juice." And for a toddler who spits out, throws up or gags on fever-reducing medication, there are fast-acting suppositories to which parents can resort...
...giant Israeli scorpion, a 5-in.-long species known as the "death stalker," may offer hope for the 25,000 Americans each year who have glioma, an incurable, rapidly spreading form of brain cancer. Surgery provides only a temporary respite, and the few experimental therapies extend a patient's life span only weeks...
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...