Word: sore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman, president and chief executive officer. Under the spell of Vagelos' visionary vigor, the company has recovered from a tepid performance in the early 1980s to become the world's No. 1 prescription drugmaker. Though many Americans probably could not name a single Merck product, especially since its Sucrets sore-throat lozenge and Calgon bubble- bath brands were sold in 1977, physicians and pharmacists are very familiar with the company's 100 drugs, from antibiotics to anticholesterol pills. Merck's sales surged by 23% in 1987, to a record $5.1 billion, as profits ballooned by 34%, to $906.4 million...
...proctors also said they found their part of the process difficult. "The hardest part of proctoring is that the back of your neck gets really stiff," said Glannon. "I had to give someone a massage on the lower back so he could keep going, he was so stiff and sore...
...within weeks of painful streptococcal throat infections. But the majority of recent victims have experienced only mild symptoms of strep throat, if any. Thus parents have not become alarmed until after the persistent fever and tender joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller, chief pediatrician at New England Medical Center in Boston: "Parents will have...
Because there is no vaccine or cure for the disease, prevention is still the best bet. "I'd recommend that any sore throat be cultured," New England's Schaller says. Other experts are worried that parents and doctors too young to remember the rheumatic-fever wards of the past may not recognize the warning signs of a forgotten menace until too late...
Sweeney and Pawloski have been that valuable to the Crimson this year. And with Josh Caplan out last weekend with a sore shoulder, this defensive tandem had more time...