Word: ulcers
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...person gets an ulcer here, it's because of his diet and drinking, not worry," says Ben Barry, 48, who has lived on Majuro since 1969. "This is an alcoholic's paradise. Where else can you get Black Label for 800 and listen to good jazz while you drink...
Peaceful neighborhoods are terrorized by roving youth bands who shake down the local populace by singing to them. And perhaps the most shocking Christmas season excesses are committed by those normally civilized individuals who fanatically insist on ruining good liquor by lacing it with homebrewed, egg-based ulcer remedies as a means of putting themselves in the proper Christmas spirit. Or vice-versa...
...more than half of the 4 million Americans who suffer the anguish of peptic ulcers, there was encouraging news last week: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved the general prescription use of a new drug, cimetidine. It shows greater promise than many previously acclaimed anti-ulcer drugs because it works by a different mechanism. Cimetidine reduces acid production in the stomach wall, allowing the ulcers to heal...
...most cases, what the average victim calls his "stomach ulcer" is actually located in the duodenum, the next lower chamber in the digestive tract. Traditional methods of treating ulcers have been of limited value: antacids, whether recommended by the doctor or the TV set, give only short-term relief, and some (notably that old stand-by bicarbonate) may cause harmful side effects. Bland diets-baby food and milk and cream-are unbalanced and unsatisfying. Antispasmodic drugs are of dubious value and have serious side effects. Surgery to cut out part of the stomach or sever the nerves that govern...
...pharmacologist as well as physician, worked with chemists at Smith Kline & French Laboratories to find what are awkwardly called H2-receptor blockers. After testing over 700 compounds, they finally hit upon cimetidine. At present, their discovery has been approved for up to only eight-weeks' use by duodenal-ulcer patients and by victims of a few other diseases causing excessive acid secretion, like gastrinoma (tumors of the pancreas). Under the brand name Tagamet, the new drug should be available (on prescription only) by Labor Day. Cost of a four-to six-weeks' supply for the average course...