Word: pilling
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...research unit at the University of Auckland. But now Rodgers and others are preparing to show that, when it comes to preventing heart attack and stroke, the way forward for doctors may be to fuss less over drugs and dosages and instead prescribe, for everyone, a single, multi-function pill...
...subjects who have had a cardiovascular event. A problem with patients in this category is that, after six months or so, many stop taking the battery of medications prescribed to prevent a second episode. Often they feel well and balk at the cost, inconvenience or stigma of popping five pills a day. But slackening off can be deadly: between a third and a half of the more than 50,000 Australians (and 11,800 New Zealanders) who die each year from cardiovascular disease have previously survived a heart attack or stroke. As a way to boost compliance, condensing treatment into...
...trickier question is who else might eventually be encouraged to take the poly-pill. Like all drugs, each of its components carries the risk of side effects, and these have to be weighed against the potential benefits. For over-55s in excellent cardio health, the net benefit would be minimal. So another study will involve 600 subjects who doctors believe run a 7.5% to 15% risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next five years, regardless of age. None of them will have cholesterol levels or blood pressure that would qualify them for treatment under current guidelines...
...course, when sunny beaches beckon you to leave frosty Cambridge behind, that is a tough pill to swallow. When the thermometer doesn’t hit 30 for weeks, even the strongest-willed environmentalist says “bring it on” to global warming. But you may think twice when you realize that your favorite place to spend time outdoors—be it a snow covered mountain or a sunny beach—could be meaningfully altered by the time your children want to enjoy it, and your decisions may be contributing to its demise...
...Wearing shirts reading “Worldwide Boycott Abbott” and “Our labs, our drugs, our responsibility,” the group engaged in chants such as “Hey Abbott, get off it, people over profit,” and shaking symbolic pill bottles with pennies inside. The initial plan for yesterday’s protest—which featured 22 Harvard students along with nearly 50 other people, including students from University of Massachusetts Medical School and Clark University Medical School—was to march up to the building chanting, to listen...