In this sometimes frightening book, Eban delves into the dangerous market of generic pharmaceutical drugs.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2019-12-10/bottle-lies-inside-story-generic-drug-boom
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Friday, December 27, 2019
New book about deficiencies in generic drugs
There are many deficiencies in international generic drugs. This book addresses some of these issues.
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Sunday, December 1, 2019
Deep Brain Stimulation impacts ability to swim
The electronic implants reduced Parkinson's symptoms, but also erased some patients' ability to swim.
(C) NY Times
By Denise Grady
- A lifelong swimmer leapt into deep water near his lakeside home, and was horrified to find himself completely unable to swim. Had his wife not rescued him, he might have drowned.He had recently received an electronic brain implant to control tremors and other symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and somehow the signals from the device had knocked out his ability to coordinate his arms and legs for swimming.
Three of them tried turning off the stimulators, and immediately could swim again, according to an article in the journal Neurology by a medical team from the University of Zurich.
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