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...recruit athletes (c) spend a large amount of money--about 4 percent of Duke's recruiting budget is what's allowed (d) utter one single disparaging word about any other college, college soccer program or college coach and (e) offer any guarantees whatsoever concerning possible acceptance, financial aid, special treatment or selection to the varsity team...
After months of controversy, the Food and Drug Administration last week ended its ambivalent attitude toward a genetically engineered drug that dissolves blood clots. FDA Commissioner Frank Young announced that the agency had approved the use of tissue plasminogen activator, or t-PA, as an emergency treatment for heart attacks. The drug activates an enzyme that destroys fibrin, the protein that binds clots together. Arterial clotting is thought to be a factor in most of the 1.5 million heart attacks suffered annually in the U.S., so t-PA could save thousands of lives. With an injection of the drug, said...
...which is already sold abroad, will be marketed under the brand name Activase. Genentech officials say the drug, which costs about $2,000 a treatment, could be available in two or three weeks...
...drug, called gemfibrozil, was originally approved for treatment of a pancreatic disorder. In a five-year study of more than 4,000 Finnish men, those treated with the drug suffered only two-thirds as many heart attacks and cardiac-related deaths. After three years of treatment, that fraction dropped to less than half. "This is the largest decrease in coronary disease seen in any trial," said Heikki Frick, a University of Helsinki scientist who took over the study in 1986 after its originator, Cardiologist Esko Nikkila, died in an auto accident...
What the Helsinki study does make clear is that treatment to lessen the risk of heart attacks should concentrate as much on raising deficient HDL levels as on lowering dangerous LDL levels. That conclusion alone could point to longer life and better health for thousands each year...