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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 19, 1999

Page

6

Healthy Community movement shifts to assets and capacities

A speaker argues that successful communities build from local assets and citizen groups rather than just addressing needs. He contrasts two paths: fix what is wrong versus leverage strengths, urging involvement in a local Healthy Community effort and offering to connect interested readers via a contact number.

Swory Venef Ananuman

New asthma drugs bring hope and challenges to patients

The piece traces rising asthma rates in the United States, the burden of hospitalizations and deaths, and the promise of new drugs and devices from Merck, Glaxo Wellcome, Astra, and others. It notes concerns about growth effects from corticosteroids, physician time, and patient adherence, while highlighting once daily pills and breath activated inhalers like Diskus, Turbuhaler, and Xopenex as advances.

Anthony Colletta ABN Amro United States Centers For Disease Control and Prevention Gail Shapiro University of Washington Rau Shapiro Merck & Co Diskus Glaxo Wellcome Astra Pharmaceuticals Schering Plough

Cancer group urges offering tamoxifen to at risk women

The American Society of Clinical Oncology urged doctors to consider offering tamoxifen to women with about 1.7 percent five year breast cancer risk, noting it can reduce risk by about half in healthy women but carries hot flashes, uterine cancer and clot risks. The group also reviewed raloxifene as an alternative and emphasized individual risk assessment with tools from the National Cancer Institute.

Atlanta American Society of Clinical Oncology Rowan T. Chlebowski University of California At Los Angeles Food and Drug Administration Janie Cauley University of Pittsburgh

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