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...hair growth in some men whose hair is thinning on top but not completely gone. Marketed by the Upjohn Co. under the trade name Rogaine, it is the first product ever cleared by federal regulators for treating hair loss. Its key ingredient: minoxidil, a highly touted drug that, in tablet form, had already been approved to treat high blood pressure. Only by accident did researchers discover that minoxidil could also regrow hair. Anticipating a vast new market for the drug, Upjohn developed a liquid version and began testing it on bald heads. After twelve months, 39% of the men tested...
...million, six-year U.S. study, conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, covered 22,071 male physicians, ages 40 to 84, with no ) history of prior heart disease or stroke, for an average of 4.8 years. Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...
...Virazon. Reaching a white marker cylinder at the 20-ft. depth, they stopped, treading water for three minutes, before rising again to a second marker, at the 10-ft. level. There they waited for eleven minutes, passing the time by penciling messages to each other on a roughened Plexiglas tablet. The scheduled pauses were decompression stops that allowed the excess dissolved nitrogen to leave their bodies gradually; in a faster ascent, the nitrogen would have come out of solution too rapidly, forming gas bubbles in the tissues or blood vessels, a painful and sometimes fatal consequence known as the "bends...
...question of safety is a major FDA concern. Minoxidil is a potent drug, and taken orally in tablet form it can have serious adverse effects, including disturbing the heart's rhythm. (Minoxidil's ability to grow hair was a side effect, discovered during tests of the oral medication.) Some subjects using the 2% lotion have complained of skin itching, scaling and blistering. Ten subjects enrolled in the hair-growing tests have died, but their deaths, according to Upjohn, were not related to use of the lotion. However, no one knows the consequences of dabbing on the drug for 20 years...
...Weintraub already considers his video camera, electronic tablet and IBM PC AT to be tools of his trade, enabling him to "talk to his patients through a picture." The technology, he says, stems from "the thought that you can capture a human image and develop the software to manipulate its parts." Weintraub captures the image of a new patient with his camera, stores a digitized record of it in his computer and then uses his stylus to smooth over wrinkles and remove unsightly bumps. Invoking a software program developed with the help of Artist Nancy Burson for electronically "aging" photographs...