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...years ago, you could hardly pick up a newspaper or a magazine (including this one) without catching the buzz about a pill called Redux that was going to revolutionize the way Americans lose weight. Then last summer doctors noticed an alarming number of heart-valve problems in their patients who took Redux or its chemical cousin fenfluramine, prompting the recall of both drugs. Now comes word, from three studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, that the heart problems may not be as serious as was first feared--at least for patients who took the pills...
Tomorrow, the felicitously monikered Goren In a Box (GIB) bridge software will take on the world's best bridge players at the 1998 World Bridge Championships in Lille, France. Is this Deep Blue redux? Or simply bridge too far? Will this be the end of mankind's bridge superiority? Only Omar Sharif knows for sure...
Aren't you media people the ones who gave us all the hype about the diet drugs fen/phen and Redux, which turned out to have a dark side? I see no apology for that coverage, and little caution in the current frenzy over Viagra. RICHARD WILLIAM SPENCER Warwick, Australia...
...worry about hyped expectations. "People always want a quick fix," complains Dr. Domeena Renshaw, a psychiatrist who directs the Loyola Sex Therapy Clinic outside Chicago. "They think Viagra is magic, just like they thought the G spot worked like a garage-door opener." In the wake of fen/phen and Redux, the diet-drug treatments that were pulled from the market last year after it was learned that they could damage heart valves, caution would be advisable with Viagra. But so far the side effects seem comparatively slight and manageable: chiefly headache, flushed skin, upset stomach and curious vision distortions involving...
...REDUX REDUX Taking the diet drug for several months does not cause heart-valve problems, at least according to a study by its manufacturer. The finding contradicts earlier reports of heart-valve troubles in Redux users, some of whom took the pill for longer periods of time...