When a hot flash hits, the gel packs can be applied discreetly to forehead or neck to cool off.

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But it was going to be combined with a new drug that would ease niacin's main side effect: profound flushing, almost a hot flash, that is so unpleasant that patients choose not to use the drug.

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Cordaptive combines niacin, an already approved heart medicine, with a new drug that alleviates niacin's main side effect, hot-flash-like flushing.

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Other differences between the FZ30 and FZ50 include the addition of SDHC card support, a TTL Flash hot-shoe, 16:9 shooting mode, and the so-called Venus Engine III image processor, but the elimination of TIFF file support and several thousand pixels from the 2.0-inch LCD.

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Other advantages include a lighter magnesium alloy body, an NX power pin-enabled hot shoe for adding an external mic or flash, and a new micro-USB trigger cable.

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Data accessed most frequently (often referred to as 'hot' data) is managed using speedy NAND flash to ensure fast response times, while data accessed less often ('cold' data) resides on the robust magnetic disks.

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The first time he fired up his double hot plate, the fuse-box door was open and he witnessed a cerulean flash and a rattail of smoke, the first of four fuses it took to fry one egg.

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LUXOR, Egypt (AP) The terror lasted less than two minutes: Smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 1, 000 feet to earth.

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