Word: setbacks
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...Vioxx from the market last September and the serious questions raised about the safety of the entire class of COX-2 inhibitor drugs--at last week's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearings and in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine--represent yet another setback in the long, frustrating search for relief. "I just loved Vioxx. It was magic," laments rheumatoid arthritis sufferer Lisa Dobbs, 50, of Bethesda, Md. "When they took it off the market, I was just destroyed...
...Summers’ critics remain most upset about the president’s dismissal of the discrimination claim, which they say contradicts decades of research and represents a setback in the fight for gender equality...
Summers’ remarks last month thrust gender concerns into the national spotlight and have earned Summers the ire of many Faculty members, who see his remarks as a setback in their struggle for equality...
...minor setback, that...
Built from scratch like so much of East Timor after the militia rampages in the wake of 1999's independence vote, the nation's justice system is now facing a critical setback. All 22 of its Timorese judges, some of whom have been presiding over prosecutions for crimes against humanity in the Special Panels for Serious Crimes, have failed their probationary evaluation and are no longer qualified to hear cases. "People ask me, How about those people who have been sent to jail already?" says Carmelita Moniz, who has ruled on hundreds of civil and criminal cases since being appointed...