Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the Branch Davidian compound burned to the ground, a vast majority of Americans assumed that the conduct of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was just, David Koresh was a religious fanatic, and the Branch Davidians were a legitimate threat to the public. But this tale was told from only one perspective...
Well, Stockholm isn't calling yet, but good news on the cold front was reported at a medical conference in Toronto last week. In preliminary tests sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, an experimental compound with an ungainly moniker--BIRR 4--managed to cut the severity of cold symptoms in half without major side effects. The results were immediately hailed in the media as a breakthrough, although Dr. Ronald Turner, a pediatrician at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston who helped direct the research, was quick to add a dose of caveat. "We've got a ways...
...control group and half the experimental group got sick. The volunteers who received the BIRR 4 spray seven hours before they were exposed fared pretty well, often reporting only a mild case of the sniffles. Even those who waited 12 hours after exposure before taking the decoy compound experienced the same protective benefits...
...could be years before BIRR 4 (or any similar compound with a flashier name) is available at your local pharmacy. The long FDA-approval process has only just begun, and there are a lot of unanswered questions about how the drug would work. For one thing, BIRR 4 has so far proved effective only when it's given at an early stage of infection, yet most people aren't aware that they are coming down with a cold until a few days after they have been exposed. And since colds are relatively minor nuisances from which most patients recover...
...sake?" says Lisa Conte, president and CEO of Shaman. "But wouldn't you know, of the three extracts, the one with the crab in it was the only one that showed activity." Turns out that a component in a crab's shell is needed to coerce the active chemical compound from the plant...