Morning News Run
December 4, 2006 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Cancer, Humor, Media, Medicine, Prevention, Technology, Treatment, Your Body
Pfizer Halts Promising New Cholesterol Drug Testing – AP via Yahoo!
The news is devastating to Pfizer, which had been counting on the drug to revitalize stagnant sales that have been hurt by numerous patent expirations on key products.
The Woman Who Kept Falling Over – Guardian Unlimited
Periodically, Leyla’s world turns upside down. Not metaphorically, but literally. It’s as if her internal cameraman has flipped, inverting the scenery. The chronologies of space and time get scrambled. In the film of her day, the narrative becomes a bewildering montage. Without falling unconscious, she falls down.
Instant Breast Cancer Diagnosis – AP via MSNBC
An experimental ultrasound technique [Elastograph] that measures how easily breast lumps compress and bounce back could enable doctors to determine instantly whether a woman has cancer or not without doing a biopsy.
Indian Druglord – Wired Magazine
To U.S. Big Pharma, Indian drugmaker Cipla is a pirate operation. To the developing world, it’s a vital medicine chest. And now its cheap pills are coming to a pharmacy near you.
Red Cross Gets Handed Massive FDA Fine – NPR
This past week, the Food and Drug Administration fined the American Red Cross more than $5 million dollars for bad bookkeeping and labeling problems. It’s the latest in a series of FDA actions against the Red Cross.
New Nietzschean Diet Lets You Eat Whatever You Fear Most – The Onion
Fat Is Dead, proclaims the ambitious title of the dense, aphoristic nutrition plan, which was written by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 1880s and unearthed three years ago. After reaching bestseller lists in Europe, the book was translated into English by R.J. Hollingdale and published by Avon last month.
[tags] Red Cross, India, Pfizer, generic, drugs, breast cancer [/tags]
