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...Procardia letter is not the only example of an FDA corrective attack on drug-advertising practices. Last June the agency ordered Eli Lilly and Co. to revise the press kit it had prepared on Oraflex, an arthritis medication. The kit contained releases implying that the drug could retard the course of arthritis, a claim based on inconclusive animal studies. Lilly had taken the bold course of promoting its product directly to the consumer, and the misleading claim was trumpeted in newspapers and on television. The result was an enormous demand: more than $6 million in sales for Oraflex...
Since there is no cure, frustrated herpes sufferers will try almost any potion or palliative. Some herpetics regularly consume buttermilk, vitamins, herbs or lysine, an amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John...
...troubleshooting tour of Latin America to explain Bonn's support of Britain. A French diplomat noted that the government of President François Mitterrand "has made one of its central foreign policy goals that of improving North-South relations. To the extent that the Falklands retard that, everyone loses...
...indeed. The boy who was last to be chosen for any pickup baseball team, who was labeled "the retard" by the boys in his phys.-ed. class, who was sickened by having to dissect a frog in junior high and ran outside to vomit with the others-"and the others were all girls"- found he could win friends and influence people with his movies. He enrolled in a Boy Scout photography program, where his success made him at 13 one of the youngest Eagle Scouts ever. ("If I hadn't been a Scout," Spielberg cheerfully admits today...
...prove that Oraflex does retard this destructive process, Lilly has embarked upon a three year, 1,600-patient study. A number of researchers doubt, however, that Oraflex is unique in its action on macrophages. Pfizer Medical Director Dr. John Jefferis maintains, "Feldene does everything benoxaprofen does." Says Dr. Frederic McDuffie of the Arthritis Foundation: "I would predict that whatever effect you could get with benoxaprofen you also could get with aspirin, if you gave enough...