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When the COX-2 inhibitors hit the market in 1999, doctors and patients alike expected a lot from the little painkillers. The old standbys--which include aspirin and ibuprofen (Advil)--can tear up the lining of the stomach and cause serious bleeding disorders. These side effects occur when a protective enzyme called cyclo-oxygenase 1, or COX-1, is suppressed. Because the COX-2 inhibitors don't affect COX-1, it was expected that they would have fewer side effects...
Long is not the only one asking questions. Patients with a variety of concerns have been flooding physicians' phone lines with inquiries about Celebrex and Vioxx, two examples of a heavily advertised new class of analgesics called COX-2 inhibitors that are supposed to be easier on the stomach than aspirin. Some folks wanted to discontinue their medication; others just needed to hear that the potential cardiac threat was only theoretical and not proved...
After watching the markets' slide, you may not have the stomach for picking stocks. So here's a tip from Scudder Investments chief investment strategist Bob Froehlich: Beat everyone else to large multinational companies. Froehlich says that eventually individual investors are going to feel as though they've been penalized for sitting on the sidelines in money-market accounts earning 3%. "When they feel penalized, then the first stop into the equity market is the large-cap multinational company," he says. "You don't come off the sidelines and go to some small biotech company whose name...
...died--she was writhing in pain from an abdominal tumor at a home run by the Missionaries of Charity. "There was no way any doctor would have operated on me at that hour," she says. "So the nuns just started praying and kept a Mother Teresa medallion on my stomach. The pain subsided, and the tumor vanished." Episcopal Bishop Salvatore Lobo, head of a team that will deliver 35,000 pages of Teresa's good deeds to the Vatican, says, "This miracle meets the requirements. It is organic, permanent, immediate and intercessionary in nature." A second miracle is still required...
...doctor. There was a problem, however. As a teenager, Carson would explode with rage whenever he was crossed. One day, while he was listening to the radio, a friend changed the station without his permission. Carson went berserk and tried to shove a knife into the other boy's stomach...