November 4, 1996 Vol. XIII, No. 41

HCFA Lurches Toward Shift in Practice-Expense Reckoning

Royalties Are Banished in Medical-Procedure Patents

ERs Get Clinical-Trial Rules


Should HIV be part of routine admission testing?


TYPE II DIABETES: Moderate HbA1c drops suffice for most

FRESH BREATH: First leukotriene antagonist is okayed

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS: Oral drug effective for 38% wins okay

THYROIDS & LIPIDS: Low T4 and TSH interfere with statins

NECESSITY: An invention by the mother of Jake


Achoo!
‘Gesundheit,’ say virologists as they chip away at the ubiquitous
common cold


In a computer-generated model of a rhinovirus’ and an antiviral drug’s densities (red lines), Purdue’s Dr. Michael G. Rossmann shows where a hydrophobic antiviral
drug (blue lines) can inhibit attachment of rhinovirus (yellow lines)
 


Expense shift’s proceduralist sting

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