Dear Editor
Dear Editor Consumer Alert Allow me to add a cautionary footnote to Roger Draper's "A Pharmaceutical Cinderella" (NL, January 13-27). Aspirin is truly one of the best drugs ever compounded....
...To eliminate any ambiguity on the issue, it might be wise for Bonn to amend its Constitution and clearly affirm its intent...
...New York City Elliott A. Cohen...
...So we have two kinds of aspirin on the market...
...In a similarly biased fashion, the media has over-publicized the Arab-Israeli conflict but left the subject poorly understood...
...New York City Richard H. Shulman Germany Redivivus To Michael Moran's credit ("Germany Steps Out of the Shadows," NL, February 10-24), he carefully depicted Bonn's postunification stance as '"assertive" where others have wrongly seen it as aggressive...
...Acetaminophen only has two: antipyretic and analgesic...
...Draper's own essay reflects the Establishment bias for profitable drugs over more benign and effective nutritional supplements...
...Salpeter mocks Likud's concern over appeasement, although appeasement has permitted hundreds of thousands of Arabs to usurp public land, has prolonged the Arab uprising, and has let Arabs organize riots and rebellions from mosques and colleges...
...Since 1990, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government has simply been exerting its sovereign prerogatives and constitutional rights...
...We may have no alternative, but let us not harbor illusions about the wisdom of a public ill informed by the mass media...
...Aspirin has three actions: antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic...
...But it was Versailles and the extraordinary malicious magnetism of Adolf Hitler that became the superseding factor to which one should attribute the obsession with internal social order...
...Aspirin is manufactured in the U.S...
...However, most people still do not know how to use it correctly...
...In particular, heavy aspirin users for 30-40 years risk running the gamut from gastritis to peptic ulcer to gastric cancer, a high-mortality form of cancer...
...really opposes is any modification of nato's joint command structure...
...Hartsdale, N. Y. Al Sundel Media Bias Trust consumers' judgment on health and politics, Roger Draper advises in "A Pharmaceutical Cinderella...
...It is vital that German officials and citizens not get the impression that they are being isolated or criticized selectively...
...The threshold for analgesia is 600 mg...
...The major side effect of aspirin is microbleeding, from the coarseness of the grains...
...That situation need not necessarily repeat itself in the future, however...
...Yet through advertising, Tylenol has achieved such widespread acceptance that many people use it for analgesic effect on inflammatory pain despite the fact that its action is limited to the nerve endings...
...Moran rightly cautions against the "concern" over Germany's new assertiveness that has been expressed by mischief makers in Washington, London and Paris...
...The manufacturers of aspirin have developed buffers to help prevent microbleeding...
...are the Western "treatment of choice" for heart disease...
...In all inflammation-mediated pain, aspirin should be the drug of first choice...
...Radio and TV networks and the newspapers often make false statements or state conclusions without providing the facts audiences need to make their own judgments...
...For antiplatelet effect (i.e., to thin the blood to prevent stroke or heart attack if you have a high risk-factor profile), in most cases just one tablet is necessary every other day...
...But in his important expose of mercenary religious parties, "The Backdrop to Israel's Elections" (NL, January 13-27), there is a hit-and-run quality to some unexplained sarcasms about Likud...
...As for the newly formed independent Franco-German combat brigade, it does not augur the demise of nato...
...Would General Ariel Sharon be overreacting to worry about increasing Arab strength leading to eventual domination...
...Hence aspirin andnotvitamins C, E, etc...
...What the U.S...
...Finally, there is no reason to fear Germany's economic resurgence so long as it plays by the norms of the marketplace and abides by the rule of international law...
...It is true, for example, that "domestic tranquillity at all costs" is a sine qua non in Germany, and that the experiences of the Weimar period helped to lay a foundation for the Nazi madness...
...These buyers may be buying into major stomach surgery...
...Plain aspirin is purchased by the urinformed at fairly cheap rates...
...It is also true that Germany rejected a direct military role in the Gulf War...
...However, the aspirin he calls "safe" almost bled my relative to death...
...While Germany chose to raise interest rates to combat current inflation, rather than reduce the cost of credit in order to stimulate the international economy, it should be noted that the step was taken because economic reconstruction in eastern Germany has been given priority over "world" concerns about trade...
...But it is difficult to conceive of this happening without a concomitant restructuring of the UN Security Council that granted Germany (and Japan, too) a permanent Council seat...
...Germany's Basic Law does not prevent participation in defensive collective action against the likes of Saddam Hussein...
...But some of Moran's observations strike me as incomplete...
...in 325-mg tablets, so you must take two unchipped ones for analgesic effect...
...That would not bode well for constructive international relations...
...Eliahu Salpeter's reports in The New Leader usually are straightforward and nonpartisan...
...For example, Salpeter's bare phrase, "Jewish fanatics taking over houses in Arab neighborhoods," leaves a false impression of wrongdoing on the part of Jews buying houses from Arabs...
...Buffered aspirin, at a higher price, is purchased by the informed, who thus reduce the risk of injury through constant irritation of the gastric mucosa, which may produce gastric cancer even without running through all the evolutionary stages of stomach irritation...
...it has not been menacing, pushy or pugnacious...
Vol. 75 • March 1992 • No. 4
