Q:When is quitting smoking a bad thing? A: Perhaps when you quit with the help of Pfizer’s Chantix, and then settle into a depressive funk so bad, you think about killing yourself. According to the FDA, that is exactly what is happening to some of Chantix’s customers. On November 20th of last year, the FDA […]
3 coins in a fountain (or, 3 folks on the line)
Just read Vince’s post today on spiritual maturity and it actually made me feel much better. From the moment I walked into the office I’ve been on the phone with “takers.” A Taker is someone who has the potential to suck you dry. To illustrate, one calls on the phone and sounds as though he […]
Maybe one of the researchers simply failed to put a decimal point in the right place
In the latest pharmaceutical news, (New York Times, January 15) drug giants Merck and Schering-Plough, which make the drug, Zetia, and a pill that contains it, Vytorin, said Monday morning that Zetia had failed to benefit patients in a two-year trial that ended in April 2006. Merck and Schering said that not only did Zetia […]