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...president and chief executive officer. Under the spell of Vagelos' visionary vigor, the company has recovered from a tepid performance in the early 1980s to become the world's No. 1 prescription drugmaker. Though many Americans probably could not name a single Merck product, especially since its Sucrets sore-throat lozenge and Calgon bubble- bath brands were sold in 1977, physicians and pharmacists are very familiar with the company's 100 drugs, from antibiotics to anticholesterol pills. Merck's sales surged by 23% in 1987, to a record $5.1 billion, as profits ballooned by 34%, to $906.4 million...
Babbitt made his exit gracefully in a quip-filled Washington news conference. "Look, I'm not going to slash my throat if we don't raise taxes tomorrow," said the former Arizona governor, who had asked voters to stand up for a national sales tax to reduce the deficit...
...moan that only his family and a few associates could understand; one of them always stood close by to interpret his words. Then, in 1985, after Hawking nearly suffocated during a bout with pneumonia, he was given a tracheostomy that enabled him to breathe through an opening in his throat and a tube inserted into his trachea. The operation saved his life but silenced his voice. Now he "speaks" only by using the slight voluntary movement left in his hands and fingers to operate his wheelchair's built-in computer and voice synthesizer...
Searching for an answer, researchers have focused on the bacterial strains that cause strep throat. They isolated bacteria whose presence coincided with the renewed outbreaks of rheumatic fever. The microbes proved to be mucoid strep, a form that was prevalent more than 20 years ago. "It seemed that this may be an important clue," says Edward Kaplan, professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. "We hadn't had much rheumatic fever, then we get these mucoid strains. Maybe they were responsible." There was a problem, however: the mucoid strains also showed up where there was no rheumatic...
Because there is no vaccine or cure for the disease, prevention is still the best bet. "I'd recommend that any sore throat be cultured," New England's Schaller says. Other experts are worried that parents and doctors too young to remember the rheumatic-fever wards of the past may not recognize the warning signs of a forgotten menace until too late...