3.08.2006

Students stamp out stink, and other postmarketing news.

On Cape, air of worry over student fragrances - The Boston Globe:
Students in some of the more strenuous courses at Upper Cape Tech, such as carpentry, rely on body sprays to refresh themselves after class, when there's no chance for a shower, said Mark Dillon, the senior class president and a carpentry student.
Also it makes the girls hot.

Meanwhile in other postmarketing news...

Some Sleeping Pill Users Range Far Beyond Bed - New York Times:
Ambien, the nation's best-selling prescription sleeping pill, is showing up with regularity as a factor in traffic arrests, sometimes involving drivers who later say they were sleep-driving and have no memory of taking the wheel after taking the drug
Sleep driving. Some states find it to be among the top 10 drugs found in impaired drivers. (Pop quiz: What are the other 9?)

But a [Sanofi-Adventis, the maker of Ambien] spokeswoman, Melissa Feltmann, wrote in an e-mail message, “We are aware of reports of people driving while sleepwalking, and those reports have been provided to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as part of our ongoing postmarketing evaluation about the safety of our products.”
Must be some stuff, this Ambien. I'd never heard of it, but a guy named Sean Joyce says it made him “like the Incredible Hulk all of a sudden” on a flight to London last year. Seems like a strange postmarketing event for a sleeping pill, but then maybe the Incredible Hulk sleeps really good.

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