The tagline is from Elaine D’Farley at Self magazine talking about the FDA’s then-pending approval of Allergan’s Latisse™ for cosmetic growth of longer, thicker eyelashes treatment of hypotrichosis of the eyelashes. While not expected until early 2009, Jacob Goldstein at the WSJ Health Blog clued me in to the approval last Friday (Allergan press release […]

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As far as the world is concerned, if any day can be said to be bird flu’s birthday, it’s today. The disease of birds doctors call influenza A subtype H5N1 may have had a long gestation period, but we’re not sure how long. A form of the virus deadly to poultry was isolated from a […]

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