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PRUNING POLYPS Superaspirin to the rescue? Preliminary findings suggest that COX-2 inhibitors--the arthritis-fighting "superaspirin"--may one day help prevent colon cancer. Researchers administered high doses to patients with familial adenomatous polyposis--a devastating disease in which the colon can become so overrun with polyps that the entire organ must be removed. After six months, the number of potentially malignant polyps was reduced 25%. If COX-2 inhibitors can work in such extreme cases, researchers hope they can prevent polyps in patients with a mere predisposition to colon cancer...
...their clogged arteries Roto-Rootered with balloon angioplasty. Now researchers report that a new clot-busting drug, Integrilin, derived from--hiss!--snake venom, can cut the risk of death and heart attack 40% during the first 48 hours after angioplasty. Integrilin, like its top rival ReoPro, belongs to the "superaspirin" class of drugs. There's at least one difference: ReoPro costs $1,500; Integrilin...
PAIN-KILLER PROBLEM The superaspirin Celebrex, touted as a potent but easy-on-the-stomach pain-killer for arthritis, may be linked to 10 deaths and 11 cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhages, according to the Wall Street Journal. What's more, five of the deaths may have been due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Monsanto, the drug's manufacturer, says there's no proof that Celebrex actually caused any deaths. Plenty of folks use the drug: 2.5 million prescriptions have been written since it was introduced in January...
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