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...effects are that mild, what are ethicists so worried about? Almost everything. "As our society becomes more competitive and specialized," says Chatterjee, "even the perception that these medicines provide a slight advantage can drive demand." If new and more effective drugs have few immediately discernible side effects, patients will probably pressure doctors to prescribe them. And as their usage spreads, people may feel forced to take them just to keep up. Would the means to pay for them determine who gets them? Would the rich get smarter and the poor fall further behind? What effects would such drugs have...
...cowboy movie was never much of a discussion, according to Schamus. “We really wanted to make a big, gooey, epic love story,” he said. “The fact that it’s hot, man-on-man action is a slight twist, but essentially it’s very conservative.” Begun as a 1997 short story in “The New Yorker” written by Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain” is inspired by a nuanced encounter Proulx had while sitting in a Midwestern...
...people who are already in precarious cardiovascular health need-or so it would seem-is to begin taking a drug that could endanger them even further. Pfizer - not to mention the patients themselves-is apparently banking on the belief that Celebrex simply isn?t that risky, and that any slight dangers are outweighed by the benefits. ?Pfizer is fulfilling the commitment it made over a year ago to study Celebrex in this patient population," says Pfizer spokesman Bryant Haskins. When it comes to getting the most reliable data, it's that population-people who are part of the real group...
...movie takes a serious downturn when World War II hits. Frears attempts to add gravity by using WWII themes, yet this only reveals how slight a comedy of manners the first part is. The director’s juxtaposition of actual stock footage of the war—including the bombing of London—against the theater’s musical numbers featuring naked girls highlights the falsity of the film’s recreation of the time...
After a cascade of opinion pollsshowed that George W. Bush's popularity had descended to an all-time low, the most recent numbers reflect a slight improvement for the President. Despite those gains, however, Bush's approval rating (40% last week) remains dismal. So why is President Bush happy? "Well, according to those expert fellows," the President might explain, "the margin of error on these things is really small, so that means we're making less errors, and that's a good sign. And here's something else that folks should keep in mind. There hasn't been...