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Sure. Here's a link from a quick Google search:
https://consumer.healthday.com...
There were other drugs with the same target in at least a few other companies' research pipelines at the time, but they all ended up also fizzling out without results. This particular link is suggesting that it might slow progression, but I was under the impression that that wasn't correct either for most people with the condition. Most pharmaceutical companies have moved on to looking at tau.

A number of articles like this one in the last quarter, saying that activity trackers don't improve health, could also have had an impact.

As such, it's not prescribed that much (in this age range).

That is VERY wrong:

Despite this, more than 2 million prescriptions were written for U.S. children and teenagers in 2002, link

You don't know that now.

He has a pretty good idea, pedant.

You just assume that everyone is on your schedule.

His schedule, or one in line with 97% of the work force?

• Police officers, hospital workers, truck drivers, and factory workers are among those working the "third" or "graveyard" shift that keeps the country moving along 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They make up 3.2 percent of the work force,

So yeah, you do have a pretty good idea, based on the time, if people are likely to be working, awake or sleeping at certain times of the day. At 7pm someone is likely to be awake, or at work if they work second shift. At 3 am, someone is likely to be sleeping, unless they are a college student or work overnights. That all goes out the window with universal time.

There's a new running craze for women but current trends in research point to running actually shortening lifespan if it is overdone.

I'm not sure methamphetamine is a direct replacement for Sudafed. You might want to double check that.

The point isn't that Sudafed is the same as meth, but that it is restricted because it can be used to make meth, yet I can buy the meth directly easier than I can buy Sudafed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/da...

Also, this war on meth has resulted in the pharmaceutical industry selling what is essentially a placebo in the form of a "meth-resistant" Sudafed PE:

http://consumer.healthday.com/...

Seven other studies, according to the authors, found that phenylephrine didn't work better than a placebo.

"It does nothing," Hendeles said. "Clearly the 10 milligram (dose) does not work."

So consumers are being guided into buying a product that doesn't work by a drug policy that also doesn't work.

Chances are, if you killed yourself with a gun (at least on purpose), without a gun you'd kill yourself some other way. Guns are a tool.

Accidents happen. More kids drown in pools than are "accidentally" shot each year. Guess which one we are trying to ban? http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=664890 Accidental Shootings account for only 760 per yr (avg). Cars, Drowning and several other "accidents" are well ahead of guns. Guess which one we are trying to ban?

> And yet people were still getting colds by the dozens

I've been a vegetarian off and on over my life. Right now, I have just been trying to eat better, exercise a little more, and I consider myself to be a flextarian (I eat meat, just way less of it than typical Americans).

During times of eating right, I get sick a fraction of what my friends and family do, but if I eat the Standard American Diet, I get sick every time someone sneezes around me.

Right now, almost every single co-worker I have at work has been deathly ill this winter...I've had the sniffles a couple of times. I'm not saying I'm bulletproof, but I know very well from first-hand anecdotal evidence that Americans bring a lot of pain and suffering upon themselves due to diet/lifestyle factors.

See:

http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=666526