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...term. But again, says Wadler, "since overproduction of red cells is potentially lethal, this technique requires a pharmacological on-off switch." Researchers are using various techniques to devise controllable EPO delivery systems, in which genes inserted into the skin can be turned on and off either by taking a pill or rubbing a chemical on the skin. Other scientific groups are encapsulating genetically engineered EPO-producing cells in man-made biological carriers and implanting these microbioreactors into tissue, where they deliver a controlled low-dose supply of the hormone...
...from burning the corpse. In After the Fall, a revival of a 1964 Arthur Miller play and Krause's first turn on Broadway, he plays Quentin, a man whose two marriages break under the weight of the first wife's endless hectoring and the second's endless pill popping. Along the way, two characters commit suicide. As Quentin asks at the end of the first act, "Good God, can there be more...
Today only about 2% of hospitals have this system in place. If the one you enter doesn't, request a list of every drug prescribed and find out what each one looks like. Don't be afraid to ask about an unfamiliar pill before swallowing...
...parasites. Several pilot studies conducted in Africa have proved that combination therapy, in which at least one of the medications is derived from a plant called Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, easily destroys drug-resistant malarial parasites in the bloodstream. Using several drugs at once, often in the same pill, greatly decreases the risk that the parasites will become resistant. As an added bonus, artemisinin, the active ingredient in Artemisia annua, acts very quickly, further decreasing the chances of drug resistance...
...reached 64,000 cases, with 423 deaths. When the government reintroduced DDT spraying in the middle of that year, the results were dramatic. The number of cases fell almost immediately. By the end of 2001, when doctors began treating their patients with Coartem, a single, multidrug pill that includes an artemisinin derivative, the number of cases had been cut in half. In 2003 the number of deaths was down...