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...that affects 6 million Americans. RSD starts with a minor injury to an arm or leg--say, a twisted ankle or a bruise--but quickly blossoms into a strange syndrome in which the sympathetic nerves (the ones responsible for temperature control, sweating and blood flow) go so out of whack that blowing air across the skin is enough to trigger burning pain. The injured extremity and surrounding tissue can become discolored and, eventually, immobile. Now researchers report two experimental treatments. In one, doctors restore motor activity to the limb with medication continuously delivered through a pump placed under the skin...
...generic-drug makers feel as if they're playing a game of 50-state Whack-a-Mole, never knowing where another amendment or rule pushed by their rivals is going to pop up. Take Illinois: last year Barr and its allies persuaded legislators to dissolve a state panel that had delayed marketing of some FDA-approved generics, but Governor George Ryan vetoed the bill. Still, all sides worked out a compromise to give immediate approval to most generics. Barr's lobbyists relaxed. Too soon, it turns out. A month ago, an amendment was quietly tacked onto a new bill...
...Lord. Politics and pop culture do not mix. Look what happened to Barbara Streisand, Warren Beatty! They're laughing stocks. All I have to say, Diva, is that someone should have grabbed the cane Gwyneth was walking on because of her broken toe and given her a big fat whack...
...only a short step from here to a world in which first-graders sue parents for sending them to bed after dinner? Probably not, if only because the court's ruling is so entirely outside the general trend of law in this area. The ruling is "out of whack," says professor Martin Guggenheim, who specializes in children's law at New York University. "A child can't go to the dentist without permission, can't have any kind of emergency surgery, can't choose school, religion, clothing, housing. If you took this ruling to its logical extension, a child would...
...appalling thing is how out of whack our student-faculty ratio is compared to other law schools," Cooper says...