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...that not only violates the party's core aversion to Big Government fixes but also alienates the business interests that are the party's political and financial lifeblood. Senate majority leader Trent Lott and whip Don Nickles put out the word last October that their party was on the side of the insurers, and it was time to strike back. "The message we are getting from House and Senate leadership is that we are in a war, and need to start fighting like we're in a war," an insurance-industry lobbyist wrote in a memo to her boss. When...
...doses are slight--usually 15 to 60 units, vs. the 3,000 required to kill somebody. In addition to smoothing worry lines, Botox is used to erase crow's feet and furrows between the eyebrows. While results are relatively short-lived (four to six months), any unintended side effects--a droopy eyelid, say--eventually go away too. This is good for doctors as well as patients. "By the time somebody consults a lawyer," says Dr. Monte Keen of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, "it's worn...
...which pain is treated in the U.S. Each year 7,600 Americans die from internal bleeding caused by long-term use of NSAIDs. The new drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors, relieve pain just about as well as aspirin and its cousins but seem to have no serious side effects. With visions of $5 billion or more in potential sales over the first five years, drug companies are racing to get their own versions of these superaspirins to market first--a race that Monsanto's Celebra is likely to win. If approved by the FDA, Celebra could be available as early...
...there's always a possibility that superaspirins could provoke some unforeseen side effects. Although clinical trials haven't yet revealed any problems, in many ways the real experiment doesn't begin until doctors start writing prescriptions for hundreds of thousands of people. The trouble with Duract, for example, showed up only after patients took the painkiller for several weeks--much longer than most subjects in the clinical trial. Researchers don't expect the same sort of trouble from COX-2 inhibitors. But they won't know for sure until long after the first million arthritis sufferers reach for a bottle...
...before Faircloth's press conference, Edwards was peddling his own health-care elixir at a panel discussion in Raleigh. He condemned "health-care bureaucrats" who overrule doctors in determining a patient's treatment, and asked, "Are we gonna put the law on the side of the patient or...leave it on the side of the big insurance companies?" In the familiar terms of Southern populism, Edwards promised to be an "independent voice" in the Senate for those who "don't have Lear jets to fly them to Washington, don't have lobbyists walking the halls of Congress...