Eli Lilly pushed Zyprexa, a drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as a treatment for older patients with dementia, according to marketing materials.
Our nation's core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating. We are into the fifth year of a relatively robust expansion, but millions are worse off. Exposed to greater risks in job security, they feel abandoned, left to fund their own health and retirement programs out of static or falling real incomes.
It doesn't have the glamour of a Sub-Zero refrigerator, but it's hard to imagine life without the vacuum cleaner. The Rodney Dangerfield of home appliances turns 100 in 2007 and has undergone some revolutionary changes that have dramatically improved its efficiency. So if you're still pushing dust around with that ancient Hoover, it may be time for an upgrade.
With home sales plummeting and prices dropping in some areas, sellers who want out need to put the best face possible on their properties. No one knew that better than I when I decided to put my Washington home on the market last summer-right before a 100-year downpour put the backyard under 10 inches of water and flooded the basement.
AP - North Korea defiantly declared itself a nuclear power Monday at the start of the first full international arms talks since its atomic test and threatened to increase its arsenal if its demands were not met.
AP - Robert Gates was sworn in Monday as secretary of defense at a crucial juncture in the Iraq war, a conflict that cost Donald H. Rumsfeld his job and likely will define Gates' Pentagon tenure.
AP - The discovery of a dead climber in a snow cave up Mount Hood brought a sad conclusion to a long week of anxious optimism in the search for three men on the 11,239-foot mountain.
Rescuers are returning to Mount Hood today to search for two missing climbers and to bring down the body of a third climber found dead. The body of Kelly James was found Sunday inside the second of two snow caves rescuers searched Sunday afternoon, his family told NBC News.
Detectives have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering five prostitutes in eastern England, police said today. The man was arrested at his home in Trimley, near Felixstowe, Suffolk, in the deaths of the women whose naked bodies were found over 11 days.
Three bombings in Baghdad on Monday morning killed one person and wounded at least 13 people, while the Iraqi Red Crescent has suspended its work in the Iraqi capital to protest the mass kidnapping of its workers.