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...other staff members gossip on Monday afternoon, Buse picked up his first hint of trouble. Both McConnell and Texan Phil Gramm, another reform foe, were going to vote with Wellstone. Why would Gramm and McConnell vote with a liberal? Suddenly Buse understood: Wellstone's amendment was a poison pill, with the potential to kill the whole measure. He rushed to warn McCain...
Most people seem to assume that there's no such thing as overdosing on an over-the-counter pill; if one dose doesn't take the sting from their pain, they simply pop another. But you can't gobble acetaminophen tablets like so many M&Ms. The drug produces toxic byproducts that are funneled to the liver--which ends up working overtime to clear them out of the body. If you ingest too much acetaminophen, toxins can build up in the bloodstream and do serious damage...
...should pretty well settle the matter because it's a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, the most rigorous type of study researchers know how to design. More than 27,000 women, ages 50 and older, are taking either the drugs or a dummy pill for anywhere from eight to 12 years. Because neither they nor the medical staff running the program knows who is getting what, you can bet the results will be as objective as humanly possible...
...study of 12,500 subjects worldwide. Clopidogrel is already used after angioplasty procedures--Vice President Dick Cheney took it--but this latest study may make it the most significant advance in the management of heart disease since aspirin. If only clopidogrel were as cheap: it costs about $3 a pill...
...brink of death the last two weeks, double them for the House, and then multiply by four. Sunday, New York Democrat Charles Rangel told CNN he knew how it would come out: The measure would pass the House by a slim margin - and then die of a Republican "poison pill" when it goes to a conference committee. "It will never reach the President's desk," Rangel said...