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...year study showed that the amphetamine-like stimulant phenyl-propanolamine (PPA), despite decades of use as a decongestant and a weight-loss drug, increases the risk of hemorrhagic stroke, especially in young women. The FDA subsequently deemed it unsafe and asked manufacturers to pull medications containing PPA off pharmacy shelves. PPA has been on the market since the mid-1930s, and consumers take 6 billion doses of it annually, in such products as Alka-Seltzer, Robitussin, Dexatrim and Tavist-D. Though PPA is widely used in many popular cold and diet pills, medications with the safer alternative pseudoephedrine are easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2001: Your A To Z Guide To The Year In Medicine | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

WALKING We already knew that walking can reduce adult-onset diabetes and coronary heart disease. But researchers at Harvard University have found another good reason to take a hike: to prevent stroke. According to the Harvard Health Letter, even people who had been sedentary for much of their life had a lower stroke risk soon after they started walking regularly. Speed counts, though. For the fastest walkers, the risk reduction was an impressive 40%. A leisurely stroll does some good, but the study showed that a brisk pace of three m.p.h. or more is the key, even more important than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2001: Your A To Z Guide To The Year In Medicine | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...most advanced conotoxin-derived drug in development is Elan Corp.'s Ziconotide, a nonaddictive treatment for severe chronic pain that is awaiting FDA approval. Cognetix, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently started clinical trials on a possible epilepsy treatment. Also in the works: potential therapies for schizophrenia, stroke and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potions From Poisons | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Doctors have long known that cutting back on salt or sodium can help lower blood pressure in folks with hypertension, a silent condition that increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. What hasn't been so clear is whether reducing the amount of sodium in the diet will benefit those whose blood pressure is normal. Now comes word that restricting salt can indeed lower normal blood-pressure levels. Though the effect isn't as great, it's still important, according to a study published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Pass the Salt | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...knew much about it but Jackie at end in a Schiaparelli pink slack suit gave a three-minute performance..." Then Rose observed: "Joe Sr...is not at all himself but quiet...For first time--I have noticed he has grown old." A month later, Joe Kennedy had the stroke that incapacitated him for the rest of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Chronicles of a Dynasty in the Making | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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