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...placebo effect--the expectation that about 35% of patients will show improvement if they are given any kind of treatment at all, even a sugar pill--is one of the givens of modern medicine and, for true believers, the best evidence of the healing power of mind over body. But is it real? Two Danish researchers set out to test it by reviewing 114 clinical trials in which patients were given a real medicine, a placebo or no treatment at all. Their analysis, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that placebos offer no significant advantage...
...phen users started showing up in doctor's offices and hospitals with catastrophic heart and lung problems. One of them was an athletic but overweight Boston- area bride-to-be, Mary Linnen, 29. Hoping to look a little more svelte in her wedding dress, Linnen had been taking the pills for only 23 days before she developed a fatal lung condition, primary pulmonary hypertension, that effectively suffocated her within the year. Many other pill takers turned up with plaque-riddled heart valves requiring open-heart surgery...
...industry than of the taxpaying public; and politicians who repaid campaign contributions from the pharmaceuticals by pressuring the FDA to rush dubious new drugs through the pipeline. Like her litigators', Mundy's language is sometimes hyperbolic. She also lets the public off a little too easily for relying on pill-popping solutions rather than changes in lifestyle. Nonetheless, she provides a read that will have you gritting your teeth...
...bitterest pill to swallow during the 1950-51 season was a 10-9 loss to future Beanpot rival Boston College. To this day, the defeat marks the only occasion that a Harvard hockey team has lost a game after scoring nine goals...
...knees to go to the bathroom, I'm now back at work," says Ferber, 48. "I go to the gym. I'm volunteering for an animal-rescue group. I have a girlfriend. It's the dream of any cancer patient in the world to be able to take a pill that works like this. It's truly a miracle...