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...discovered a group of histamine receptors, a finding that led to the development of the drug cimetidine. The drug introduced "a new principle in the treatment of peptic ulcer," said the institute's announcement...
...blue-gray eyes still sparkled. On a small table in the corner stood a typewriter. "It is the fifth in 20 years," he said. The police had confiscated the others in attempts to trace samizdat (underground press) articles critical of the regime. The harassment had brought on an ulcer complicated by other stomach ailments. After multiple surgery in 1980, Ruml was declared an invalid and retired with a monthly pension...
...lifted off last week from San Salvador's Ilopango air force base. Seven hours later, the President of El Salvador checked into Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to face his latest -- and most daunting -- challenge. Before leaving El Salvador, he had announced, "I have a bleeding ulcer in the stomach of a malignant character." Medical tests conducted at Walter Reed found that Duarte, 62, is suffering from stomach cancer that appears to have spread to his liver. "I'm going to fight," Duarte vowed. "God willing, I'll come out all right...
These days Vagelos is pushing his researchers to come up with the next generation of wonder drugs. In the testing stages: another cholesterol- lowering drug that could prove more potent and longer lasting than Mevacor; an anti-ulcer medication that has shown a high degree of effectiveness; MK- 538, a drug that holds promise of aiding diabetes sufferers. Merck will soon launch large-scale clinical trials for MK-906, which in preliminary tests shrank swollen prostate glands without bad side effects, alleviating a problem that vexes millions of men over 40. Other teams are studying cures for cataracts, arthritis, cancer...
Retiring abruptly in 1979 (at just 42), not really because of his ulcer, not precisely because his fear of flying was nearing a frenzy, Madden reluctantly accepted CBS's second or third offer of a commentator's tryout and hesitantly began jumping through paper hoops in Miller Lite beer commercials. Nine years later, his network stipend is crowding $1 million a year, and the rewards from his myriad motor-oil and antihistamine accounts may be two or three times that. He has written two best-selling memoirs (Hey, Wait a Minute, I Wrote a Book! and One Knee Equals...