Byetta came under fire of late when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that six patients who had been taking the drug had developed severe pancreatitis. The condition can also release toxins into the bloodstream and has been known to develop in patients with diabetes. Each of the six patients required hospitalization; two died. Four other fatal pancreatitis cases linked to Byetta were reported the following week.So it costs twice as much, has a high incidence of cancer, but boy-oh-boy --- it works great! sheesh.
On the lighter side: tonight I watched a mother badger her son for 2 hours trying to show him how many ways he was doing his math homework wrong. she kept toning at him, "don't you see this!!! this is how the book does it!!!" he was getting the same answer as the book - just in a different way. Now, I know all you teachers out there are going to say that it has to be done the same way as the book...but this wasn't algebra or statistics or anything like that. It was MULTIPLICATION.....as in 8 x 8!!! poor kid. no wonder he kept telling her, "I don't like math!"
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