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Your story left out psychology in favor of neurophysiology and thereby revealed two more serious American addictions: one, the desire to explain complex human psychology in simplistic, materialistic terms, and the other, the need for a pill to solve every problem. True, the "dopamine cycle" may reveal the physiological underpinnings of human cravings; however this is not really the whole story...
...diet-in-a-pill, to be marketed as Xenical, works by disabling pancreatic enzymes that help the intestines absorb the fat in foods. The drug produces "a kind of intestinal aversion" to fat, explains Dr. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University, an FDA adviser. "Patients learn there are consequences to eating more...
PARIS: Bowing to boycott threats from American anti-abortion groups, European pharmaceutical giant Hoechst transferred non-U.S. patent rights to the abortion pill RU-486 to one of the doctors who invented it. Although Edouard Sakiz, who headed Roussel Uclaf, the company that lead the development of RU-486 before it was acquired by Hoechst, will market the drug worldwide through a new company, he said he will not do business in the U.S. Once the drug wins approval, it will be distributed by The Population Council, a New York-based non-profit that received the U.S. patent from...
...hundreds of millions of dollars in unregulated, soft money. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said there were arguments that under that interpretation, "some of these coffees, some of these sleepovers" at the White House might fall outside the scope of the investigation. Expanding the investigation may prove a tough pill for everyone in Congress. While Bill Clinton may have sold seats at his weekly radio address, each day is bringing new stories of si milar improprieties by Republicans as well. The party that raised Republicans who had raise $200 million more than the Democrats in the last election cycle...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration said that specific does of certain oral contraceptives can be safely and effectively used as "morning-after pills." According to FDA studies, taking two two oral contraceptives within 72 hours after intercourse, followed by a second identical dose 12 hours later, is 75 percent effective in blocking a pregnancy. The pills work by preventing a fertilized egg from entering the uterus and won't work if a woman is already pregnant. Aside from nausea and, in some cases, vomiting, there are no serious side effects. It's the first federal approval...