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...ESCHENBACH, 64, as George W. Bush's third Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner; in Washington. The promotion of Von Eschenbach, who has been acting FDA chief since the resignation of Lester Crawford last September, promptly stalled over the controversy surrounding Plan B, the "morning after" pill. A urology surgeon who has led the National Cancer Institute since 2002 (he now plans to retire from that job), Von Eschenbach enters a long-simmering battle. The Bush Administration has so far delayed a decision on whether to approve the emergency contraceptive pill for over-the-counter use despite a green light...
...quarter of them were passed into law, up from only 12% two years before. In Washington the word obesity appears in 56 bills introduced during the current Congress; this, the Wall Street Journal points out, is fast catching up with the number containing the word gun. Surgeon General Richard Carmona says obesity is a greater threat than terrorism. Some public-health advocates have begun urging the government to put a warning label on soft drinks; others are calling for a "fat tax" on fast food...
...suggest that it replace anesthesia entirely. For one thing, not everybody can be hypnotized. Some 60% of patients are hypnotizable to some degree, Spiegel says; an additional 15%, highly so. The rest seem to be unresponsive. Moreover, many patients are fully sedated before surgery not because the surgeon requires it but because they choose to be. "People don't want to feel or hear anything. They want to be out," says Schulz-Stübner. "That's what you hear most of the time...
...areas of her field - mind-body stuff like hypnosis. I had read a few hypnosis paperbacks as a teenager, got nowhere hypnotizing the girls next-door. In med school I read her journals and went to a couple of courses with her. It was interesting. But I was a surgeon...
...That?s what Oscar is looking for: not acting but Acting! The Master Thespian strutting his bombastic stuff. By this standard, Heath Ledger, whose boldly subtle turn in Brokeback is so internalized you might need a surgeon to find it, is a less likely winner than Philip Seymour Hoffman, who?s much showier (and pretty swell too) as Truman Capote. Similarly, Reese Witherspoon, the world?s darling, may be seen as simply radiating star quality in her turn as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. (We love her, but, honestly, the movie is Joaquin Phoenix?s show...