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...need an M.D. to know the difference between a shin splint and a head cold. So why should you have to run to the doctor every time you need a little extra pain relief or a more potent sinus drug? The answer: increasingly, you won't have to. A number of drugs that were once dispensed only with a doctor's prescription are now primed to arrive on shelves at convenience stores and groceries. More and more, pharmaceutical firms are asking officials at the Food and Drug Administration to approve certain medications that the companies say are safe enough...
...career in 1974 and 1975, had to be put to death after shattering a leg. No more. By screwing metal plates into the broken bones, a practice adapted from human orthopedics, surgeons can repair the damage well enough for the animals to stand comfortably after the operation without a splint. (Earlier attempts frequently failed when the high-strung animals destroyed their casts, reinjuring their legs.) At Tufts, rehabilitation after surgery includes therapy on a gaited treadmill that can be set from a walk to a hard gallop. After recovery, many of the animals return to racing; otherwise, they serve their...
...cramp starting after seven miles. But he was determined to finish, and so he pounded on for 19 more miles before collapsing at the finish line. Doctors, who later set his right femur with a steel rod, theorized that his powerful thigh muscle had acted as a splint until he finally relaxed at race...
...night, committing three penalties--"two of them after the whistle, "Britz said--during his harassment of the Crimson player. Which would be fine with Britz except for one thing. Gage's final on of skullduggery broke the Crimson player's left hand, and now he's in a plaster splint and out for the rest of the season...
...FINAL LESSON in military custom focused on the salute. "The upper arm should be parallel with the ground, and the forearms should be rigid--put those forearms in a wooden splint," Henderson says. "If you use your left hand, you may stick out," he adds. The pointers may come in handy someday--Henderson says he hopes many of the cadets will go on to Air Force careers. If they do, they'll be able to skip basic training. "You'll be going in with two stripes on your shoulder," Henderson tells them. "When I was at Lackland, a man with...