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...disturbing data is drawn from the FDA's adverse events database, which routinely collects information about patient experiences with drugs from doctors, pharmacists and the drug companies themselves. As such, the reports are merely "observations that certain patients took the drug and then something happened," Gorman explains. But until the incidents are investigated, it is impossible to say whether a given reaction was caused by the drug or by other factors. The complications may have been precipitated, for example, by a patient's other medicines, illnesses or conditions, and may have nothing to do with the drug. In the case...
...catchy title--Hideous Kinky--but it doesn't mean anything. It's just a nonsense phrase that sets two little girls named Lucy and Bea (Carrie Mullan and Bella Riza) to giggling. Certainly it doesn't catch the patient, tender tones of this gently exotic movie or the spirit of the girls' mum, Julia (Kate Winslet). "Sweetly addled" comes closer to the mark. Or maybe "daftly dreamy...
PRIMING THE PUMP Rushing to shock a cardiac-arrest patient with a defibrillator may make great TV, but a preliminary study suggests it may not always be the best approach. If the medics are delayed, 90 seconds of CPR administered prior to defibrillation seems to increase chances of survival 25%. CPR may help by clearing away toxins released by damaged heart cells...
Harvard got out to a fast start behind a patient and well-balanced offensive attack. Sophomore Adam McGown won the opening face-off, which set up a quick tally by Buttles...
Doctors have learned a lot over the past decade about how to treat colon cancer. But given that it strikes 130,000 Americans each year, there's surprisingly little research about the best way to monitor a patient's condition after his or her tumor has been removed. The goal, of course, is to catch any metastasis, or spreading of the original cancer, while it is still small and treatable. To do that, physicians rely on everything from blood tests to computerized X rays, or C.T. scans, to detect new tumors in the liver and lungs, among other places. Unfortunately...