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...higher doses. If patients become dependent on the narcotic and continue taking prescription painkillers, they are also more likely to suffer from liver toxicity associated with the acetaminophen. "How can you mix a highly addictive drug with one that can cause toxicity at high doses?" asks Dr. William Lee, director of the Clinical Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Lee presented data to the committee on liver damage due to acetaminophen overdose. "It's like putting poison in a candy...
...product altogether, but it could also indicate elimination only of the pairing of acetaminophen and a narcotic (like hydrocodone or oxycodone), the other primary pain-relieving ingredient contained in Vicodin and Percocet. "The question did not specify, so conceivably panel members could have had different interpretations," says Ruth Day, director of the medical cognition laboratory at Duke University and one of the voting panel members. "However, there was a lot of other discussion about having just the main ingredient [e.g., hydrocodone] alone, so that's very likely the interpretation for everyone. And there was no call to remove the other...
...Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union for Clerical and Technical Workers, said that roughly 30 staff from FAS in his union had been laid off, mostly in "ones and twos" from 13 different departments and offices across FAS. Some of the eliminated jobs corresponded to services that administrators previously announced would be cut, Jaeger said. But he also noted that his tally's methodology and his definition of a "layoff" may differ from the School's, since the union's count does not include workers who volunteered to be laid off, nor those who were offered alternative jobs...
Moneyball • final script turned in for by the director of (Steven Soderbergh) results in the studio pulling the plug...
...case overturning India's Section 377 took years; activists elsewhere realize they have a long road ahead. "There will not be any immediate change here because of the Indian decision," Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, executive director of Equal Ground, a gay rights group in Sri Lanka. "Things don't work like that, we have to keep working and advocating constantly." The Indian High Court has given them one more rallying cry. - With reporting by Amantha Perera / Colombo and Delwar Hussain / Dhaka...