In theory, pharmaceutical companies are barred from selling a drug for any purpose other than the one that the F.D.A. has approved on the basis of clinical testing. But the reality is different. The minute a drug receives the green light from the F.D.A. for a specific treatment, the sponsoring company and its allies begin campaigns to make it available for other purposes or for other types of patients. The antidepressant Paxil was tested on adults but sold off-label to treat children. Seroquel, an anti-psychotic, was marketed as a treatment for depression. Physicians, often on retainer from pharmaceutical companies, are free to prescribe a drug for any reason if they entertain a belief that it will work.
Deadly Medicine
What’s really fucked up is how that might be the least disturbing part of the article.
(Photo by Alfred Wertheimer)
The First of Elvis (article slideshow)
I became a fly on the wall. …I had trained myself along the lines of available-light photography. Later on, I coined a phrase, because I got beyond available-light photography to available-darkness photography. … My feeling was that the darker you can get a decent photograph—I mean in a dark enough place—the closer you’ll get to the real personality.
- Alfred Wertheimer
What I like about this article is that it doesn’t devolve into an Elvis bio or any nonsense about blah blah Young Elvis. It’s about the photographer and his photographs (and a wee bit about his camera). Photography is the subject; that the photos are of Elvis is of course why it’s published but still somehow secondary.
The hamburger was born as a simple object, and we all fall in love with it at an early age. It’s just a fact of the world, like sunshine or our mothers’ love.
Judging the Object of America’s Universal Food Fetish: The Hamburger, Josh Ozersky
Word!
Also: “[Spike Mendelsohn] also took a perfectly good hamburger and dropped both an unmelted lump of blue cheese and horseradish mayonnaise onto it. Really, Spike?”
Guh-ross, I says. I cannot abide bleu cheese in the vicinity of my burger.
![The Vanities Girls
Late to the party on this one (it’s from Feb! heh), but: adorable! Other faves: Kristen Bell & Leslie Mann.
(Speaking of pin-up style: Gil Elvgren is probably the master of the American Pin-Up [or at least the one whose work is best-known].)](http://28.media.tumblr.com/BoEc3yCp5nfwhcygWYX5Yd5Ho1_500.jpg)
Late to the party on this one (it’s from Feb! heh), but: adorable! Other faves: Kristen Bell & Leslie Mann.
(Speaking of pin-up style: Gil Elvgren is probably the master of the American Pin-Up [or at least the one whose work is best-known].)
Something just clicked (via @rands)
(Source: Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair)
It’s possible I’ll re/post any saturated photo of Kate Winslet, but can you blame me?
…but an overall ‘gauzy’ look preferable to hard edge realism.
Oh, indeed. This one’s for R and J.
