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About 50 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure, which kills more than 42,000 people and contributes to the deaths of 210,000 each year...
Amidst union concerns that employees at the Fogg Art Museum suffer from an abnormally high incidence of cancer, the University commissioned an independent study last spring--to be released next week--of asbestos and other hazardous materials at the two museums...
...woman dying of cancer, Terry Sanborn didn't seem to suffer. She and her unemployed husband Stephen lived on Medicaid and $512 a month in Social Security in a quiet blue-collar cul-de-sac in tiny Bangor, Maine. But they managed to pay $78,000 in cash for that roomy house at the bottom of Hershey Avenue, with a swing set in the backyard. They forked over an additional $17,000 for a Ford Econoline van. Not until drug agents raided the place did neighbors know how they were able to afford...
...will this change our lives? The drugs we take? The pains we suffer? The diseases that finally do us in? The answers are as surprising as the science that is producing them. In the pages that follow we will try to give you a glimpse of the future by looking over the shoulders of the scientists who are searching--both genetically and the old-fashioned way--for tomorrow's miracle drugs. And in our first A to Z guide to the year in medicine, we will review the advances and setbacks--from aids cocktails to zinc supplements--that made...
...Ritalin For millions of children who suffer from with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), drugs like Ritalin have been a godsend. Yet at the same time there is real concern that the use of Ritalin to curb all manner of fidgety behavior has become too casual and that the drug is actually being abused as a performance booster. A Duke University study suggested that the drug is, in fact, both over- and underprescribed. The Duke team found that 25% of kids with confirmable adhd are not getting the drug, while more than half of kids who are taking the drug...