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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So does that make Redux, in its stylish sweater-striped capsule, the ideal drug for our look-good, feel-good era? Hardly. Like any other medication, Redux has side effects. Some are merely annoying: fatigue, diarrhea, vivid dreams, dry mouth. But some are patently dangerous. The drug has caused significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW MIRACLE DRUG? | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

Just when you feared that the days of the petulant pop-star tantrum were over, the brothers Gallagher arrived on--and stormed off--the scene. Liam and Noel Gallagher, respectively the lead singer and songwriter of OASIS, the biggest British band since the Beatles and the Stones, were two-thirds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

Another problem is getting viral vectors into bone-marrow stem cells, from which all of the blood's white cells are descended. Even when the rare stem cells are found, inserting genes into them is difficult because they divide infrequently, and the vectors used in gene therapy insert genes only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEYS TO THE KINGDOM | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Breakthrough is a term that is overused in reporting about medicine. But the latest advances in stroke treatment--of which TPA is only the most dramatic--surely qualify for that term. Because stroke kills 150,000 Americans each year and is a leading cause of permanent disability, even a moderately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAMAGE CONTROL | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

For severe burn patients, the first priority of treatment is to restore the damaged skin that is the body's first line of defense against microbes. To lessen the need for taking extensive skin grafts from other areas of a burn patient's already weakened body, several biotechnology companies have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HUMAN CONDITION | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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