Many go to the medicine cabinet in search of an edge, wanting something to enhance cognitive functioning.

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Over the past year, it has canceled four promising drug programs, leaving it with an almost bare medicine cabinet.

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Instead, Bristol was left looking at an empty medicine cabinet, not only in cancer but also in other diseases.

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It's enough to bring you down: The antidepressants in the medicine cabinet don't work as well as they should.

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When the harassed masses open their medicine cabinet, which OTC allergy medicine brands do they reach for and which are weeded out?

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While Ms. Kemble sometimes goes through her medicine cabinet to remove highly personal items, she makes a point of not emptying the space totally.

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"It's difficult to reach into everyone's medicine cabinet to determine that that product has been controlled and returned or disposed of by the consumer, " he says.

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It's hard to even think about being productive when you're suffering from the flu, not to mention having to choke down those bitter remedies stockpiled in your medicine cabinet.

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Meanwhile, on the policy front, according to people close to the process, the prescriptions that are now emerging are quite strong medicine a little too much so for some cabinet ministers who are also candidates for the deputy leadership and anxious to avoid giving offence.

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Last month, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sacked the sole woman in his cabinet, Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi, after she blamed the sanctions for causing medicine shortages.

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