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...PAINKILLERS Although Ibuprofen and the other over-the-counter painkillers known to doctors as nonsteroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) do not carry the same risks as the COX-2 inhibitors (see "Black Box Warnings"), they are not problem-free. Reacting to reports of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and skin problems associated with NSAIDs, the Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers to rewrite their warning labels...
STEM CELLS Before admitting to ethical lapses last week, the same Korean researcher who created Snuppy the cloned puppy (see "Cloning") shocked Western scientists by producing 11 custom-made human-stem-cell lines from the cloned skin cells of individual patients. The labs' procedure was surprisingly efficient; Woo Suk Hwang and his team needed on average only 17 human eggs to grow each of the cell lines (in contrast to the 242 eggs they needed to make a single stem-cell line just 15 months earlier). Research like this may someday lead to treatments for a wide range of disorders...
Prostate Cancer The sun may be bad for your skin, but it could do wonders for the prostate. A new study found that men with high exposure to the sun had half the risk of prostate cancer than men who spent most of their days indoors. Why? The prostate uses vitamin D--which the body makes in response to sunlight--to help prostate cells grow normally and crowd out cancer cells in the organ...
...JOSEPH A. WORRALL, MD, RDMS / FAIRBANKS CLINIC FETAL SCAN: Thicker neck skin can be a sign of Down syndrome...
TIME revealingly separated the myths from the facts. Your report showed that ambitious people are limited not by birthplace or skin color but only by the size of their dreams. Your examples of success came from different backgrounds and races. Mediocrity may not be excusable after...