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After five years of Bob Dole commercials and veritable Viagra-mania, it's hard to believe that the pill that made "erectile dysfunction" a household phrase got its start as a potential treatment for chest pain. Today Viagra is the leading drug for impotence, with worldwide sales of $1.7 billion. Its manufacturer, Pfizer, boasts that nine of the little blue pills are popped every second...
...years for use in medicine, incense and perfume. Lately it has been touted as a safe alternative to statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs. But a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports the herb is no better at lowering cholesterol than a sugar pill. --By David Bjerklie
Lariam comes in a pill to be taken weekly, and Gu took his second dosage the night before the accident. In the hours between taking the medicine and embarking on the next day’s trip, Gu showed various signs of disorientation, said Jay F. Chen ’00-’01, a close friend of Gu who was travelling in Venezuela with...
That's certainly Mullen's plan. He gave up ambitions of being a medical doctor in college, then quit the pill business at Glaxo to get in on "the hot emerging business" at Biogen in 1989. Now he hopes to be remembered as the CEO who hurried business sense to the industry "without snuffing out innovation." He's a nuts-and-bolts guy who came up on the operations side, not as a scientist. His big coups at Biogen were beefing up manufacturing capacity and creating the industry's most extensive sales force. So he's well suited...
...treated if you do; both conditions are known to increase one's risk of heart disease or stroke, and there is growing evidence that they may have more subtle effects on thinking and memory as well. Adopting a healthy lifestyle may not be as easy as popping a pill, but the effects are much longer lasting...