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...time that a new type of rehabilitation may help stroke victims regain nearly full use of their paralyzed limbs. The experimental therapy, employed by researchers at the University of Alabama and the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany, involves immobilizing the good arm of a stroke victim and forcing the patient to use their "bad" arm to perform daily tasks. Patients performed the exercises six hours a day for two weeks...
...presidential candidates fret over the high prices of prescriptions, the drug companies have been launching rear-guard actions in the states to protect their profits. Florida is one of about 30 states in which makers of brand-name drugs, often led by DuPont, have pushed to limit patient access to some generic versions. At times the generic companies have pushed back and won. In 1998 Minnesota gave its consumers access to all the cheaper substitutes approved...
Three years ago in North Carolina, DuPont helped ram through the legislature a bill requiring doctor's approval for the substitution of generics like Barr's warfarin. "We are only concerned about patient safety," says DuPont spokesman Thomas Barry. Some physicians support DuPont's position because they say warfarin is a tricky drug and doses must be carefully calibrated. The implication is that the brand names do a better job of that. But the FDA says the generic version is safe and has admonished DuPont more than once for stoking false fears in its promotion of Coumadin...
SEASON 6 Kelly becomes addicted to cocaine and checks into rehab, where a fellow patient tries to kill...
...uncanny ability to see into the future. When his actions impact the dollar, critics say nothing, but when they affect markets around the world, then all of a sudden people are full of ideas about how things should be handled. Bashing Greenspan is not productive; why not be patient? Deep down, we know that he sees the whole picture and that he won't let us down. JAMES FOX Dundalk, Ireland...