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Even so, the experts advise older people not to panic and take themselves off medications they suspect might be causing side effects without first consulting their doctors. Some drugs can trigger withdrawal symptoms unless a person is gradually weaned from them. Nor should the study's conclusions be read as an indictment of all medications. Some conditions, such as depression, are actually undertreated in the elderly. Fortunately, many drugs are safe for older people to take. What is needed is a more judicious approach to their use and a better understanding, on the part of both physicians and of their...
Margaret is drunk much of the time, but the whiskey does not seem to dull her mind, her ability to utter home truths or her prowess in bed. It just loosens her trigger finger. She lives, just after the turn of the century, not in the Wild West but in the remote hamlet of Witless Bay, Newfoundland (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock). Her lover is Fabian Vas, the narrator, who could easily have been the subject of a stultifying art novel. From age 8 he has spent most of his time in inlets and marshes sketching...
...avert inflation, despite predictions that the Fed had had its fill of rate hikes this year. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average obliged with a 20-point plummet. Greenspan, in his semiannual address to lawmakers, told the Senate Banking Committee that any signs of inflation would probably trigger a Fed vote to take interest rates--and the rates on consumer loans like mortgages--even higher...
...Norwegian survey of 370,000 mothers provides the strongest evidence yet that environmental hazards may trigger birth defects. Women who had given birth to one child with a defect had half the risk of having a second child with the same problem if they moved to another town...
...Committee approved its own health reform legislation by a vote of 12 to 8, it rejected the idea of requiring employees to pay for the coverage, even in 2002 if 95% of the population is not covered by then. Committee members were unwilling to accept the so-called hard trigger favored by committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Instead, they substituted a masterpiece of fuzziness: if 95% of the people do not have health-insurance coverage by 2002, a national health commission will make recommendations on what to do -- but Congress will not have to follow or even consider them...