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...interest in defining unhealthy weight as broadly as possible and overstating the hazards of obesity." While stressing he's not an obesity expert, David Henry, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Newcastle, notes the potential for disease mongering among the overweight, and the gold-plated possibilities for drug companies, in a broad perception of an obesity crisis. "There aren't many frontiers left for mass-population treatment drugs," says Henry. "The blood pressure, cholesterol and mood-disorder drugs are all coming off patent. Obesity and substance abuse are probably the final two frontiers for drugs taken by huge...
...Cost of a fully implantable artificial heart approved last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in people with severe congestive heart failure 5.2 Average number of months that the first 12 recipients survived with the device
...hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with. I dug deep as to why I got there. It's the drug that's addicting. But it's why you start doing it in the first place that's interesting. A lot of it was being a child actor; I learned to suppress feelings...
...country is still without electricity, 80% without potable water. Unemployment hovers around 40%. The absence of credible police and consistent government services in rural areas has created vacuums that are being filled by an array of antigovernment forces: Islamists in the south, '80s-era warlords in the west and drug runners in the north. Meanwhile, the fighting between coalition troops and the Taliban has halted new reconstruction projects and undermined the impact of finished ones. Only half the aid pledged to the country since 2001 has been distributed, and violence has rendered the road from Kabul to Kandahar--until...
...fields and dead-ended on a beach. It was pouring, and lightning stabbed out of thunderclouds. The silent woman, the bodyguard, the photographer and I took shelter in an empty beach shack. I tried to figure out who the woman was. Casta?o's mistress? The girlfriend of a jailed drug lord who needed Casta?o's help? I never found out. Just then, a procession of musicians and dancers appeared out of the rain, as if from the pages of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. On closer examination the women dancers were all young men in dresses. They explained, a little...