Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admiring employees and conducts his small, prospering business with ruthless efficiency. Aside from a persistent, insoluble public relations problem--certain elements in the community despise him--he is a model of the entrepreneurial spirit that we like to believe made America great, and at 19 he has the ulcer to prove it. Strike is a crack dealer monopolizing the trade in a Brooklyn, New York, housing project...
...latest major drug to be considered for the switch is Zantac, an anti-ulcer medication manufactured by Glaxo. Just two weeks ago, two advisory panels to the FDA gave preliminary approval for it to be sold over the counter as a heartburn remedy. Final approval from the fda, which normally concurs with its advisers' recommendations, could set the stage for a marketing war next year among three pharmaceutical giants for dominance of the $1 billion market for heartburn drugs...
...race to corner the heartburn market, Merck's Pepcid and SmithKline Beecham's Tagamet have the early lead. Both drugs boasted stellar records as anti-ulcer drugs in the prescription market and gained final U.S. approval for over-the-counter sales in April and June, respectively. Despite Zantac's late start, its popularity may enable it to overtake its rivals. Currently, it is the world's best-selling prescription drug. Analysts expect the three manufacturers together to spend some $300 million to tout their products...
Aaron's journal, as well as diaries kept by other campers and an inquiry conducted by Garfield County deputy sheriff Celeste Bernards, tells a more harrowing story. Early in the trip he developed intense stomach pain, which an autopsy later revealed was caused by an ulcer, according to testimony by Utah chief medical examiner Todd Grey at last month's pretrial hearing. In a civil suit, Aaron's parents claim that some counselors taunted him for slowing down the group. As punishment, the suit continues, North Star took away Aaron's sleeping bag, leaving him with only a blanket...
...Sister Floralba Rondi, 71, who happened to be attending at the operation on a man named Kimfumu last month, when doctors thought they were just dealing with a perforated ulcer. When they opened him up, however, his gut was dissolving. By the time he died two days later of extensive hemorrhaging, Sister Floralba was already running a high fever. She was treated at the hospital, but when her condition worsened, three of her best friends -- Sister Dinarosa, Sister Clarangela Ghilardi, 64, and Sister Danielangela Sorti, 47 -- put her in the back of their four-wheel drive car and drove...