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...itself, not all that valuable. Ideally, says St. Luke's Heymsfield, doctors should first urge obese patients to change their diet and start exercising regularly. If they still can't lose weight, he would add orlistat to the mix. Another possibility, suggests Duke's Hamilton, is to use orlistat with an appetite suppressant. The value of this new drug, says Heymsfield, is that it adds to the available anti-obesity therapies and lets doctors tailor the treatment to a patient's needs. "I don't see Xenical as something to displace one or another of the currently available drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viagra For The Thighs? | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Stars? They were lined up in the Broadhurst's wings like a queue for The Phantom Menace. Steve Martin played a nasty shrink to Stockard Channing's frazzled patient. Nathan Lane and Swoosie Kurtz as two actors waiting for an opening-night review ran their fingernails under each other's egos. Betty Buckley as a modern-media Medea got lectured by a toughlove angel (Whoopi Goldberg). Stunning Susan Sarandon was a fretful Southern mama trying to marry off her shy, sly son (delicious David Hyde Pierce), who had eyes only for his glass menagerie of cocktail swizzle sticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lighting Up Broadway | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...addition, Medicare has long paid whatamounts to a subsidy, providing reimbursements forcare for the elderly larger than the actualper-patient cost...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, Nathaniel L. Schwartz, and James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Funding Crisis Looms For Teaching Hospitals | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

...recent studies, an act of good corporate citizenship that seemed to signal a willingness to keep paying for transplant treatments in breast-cancer cases. A doctor working with Kaiser-Permanente, the nation's largest HMO, offers more direct reassurance. "It will be up to the doctor and the patient," predicts oncologist Louis Fehrenbacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Resort | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...since Anna Paquin in The Piano. Secondly, the male lead, Said Taghmaoui, was fascinating to watch. He can speak to the camera with a simple lifting of his eyebrows. And lastly, as I said before, the cinematography is impeccable--think of the breath-taking desert shots in The English Patient and add some mysteriousness; it's entrancing...

Author: By Kelly A. Turner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hideous Kinky | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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