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...Once the flushing begins, days take on a rhythm syncopated by shakes, herbal supplements and evening colonics. The latter are not as disagreeable as one might imagine. The rooms in which the bowel rinses take place are tastefully tiled, have incense and pleasant music to take your mind off the plumbing noises. Moon, my cleanse guru?his Thai nickname is due to his broad round face?is the only Thai I've met who doesn't think fasting is inane. He's a veteran cleanser who swears by it. His wife, a beautiful, bird-like woman named Lak who works...
...expansion of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, despite the troubles facing the drug industry. Since then Vasella has led two big growth-enhancing initiatives. He and his scientists persuaded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reverse its previous rejection of Zelnorm, a potential blockbuster remedy for sufferers of irritable-bowel syndrome--a condition for which there are few other treatments. Vasella also paid $876 million to acquire Slovakian pharmaceutical company Lek, the maker of such generic drugs as Amoksiklav, a substitute for GlaxoSmithKline's Augmentin antibiotic. The acquisition puts Novartis in position to challenge Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals...
Dallek believes that many of Kennedy's worst difficulties can be traced to the corticosteroids he took, perhaps starting as early as 1937, to relieve his colitis, an ulcerous inflammation of the upper bowel. Their heavy long-term use can promote osteoporosis--progressive bone disintegration. They also suppress the body's immune system, leading to the kind of serious infections Kennedy frequently suffered. But other common side effects are hair that stays thick and dark, plus skin that turns the yellow-gold of a permanent suntan. Another would be intensified sexual drive. All of which suggest that Kennedy's very...
Milt passed away in 1989. We were married for 39 years. He was ill for two years with bladder cancer and then bowel cancer. He was originally given three months to live, and he just would not accept this. He wanted to live. At the very end, I called his pain specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. She said, "I can't help him unless he comes into the hospital." Even after all these years I still cry when I think about it--he wanted life so much that he was willing to go back into the hospital. There just wasn...
...chiefs are worried that the debate could turn into a full-blown power struggle if the health of spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin continues to decline. Top Hamas officials tell TIME the quadriplegic Yassin, a unifying figure for moderates and hard-liners, was hospitalized last week with lung and bowel problems...