Random Linkage

• FDA considering ban on 50-year-old painkiller Davron, best known as a component of Darvocet along with acetaminophen
  

  n a separate analysis, the FDA office that handles painkillers said Darvon is a weak pain reliever. Most studies show that in Darvocet, the widely used combination drug, the Darvon component appears to contribute “little or no” additional pain relief beyond that provided by the acetaminophen component, reviewers said.

  Wolfe presented the advisory panel with new data from the government’s Drug Abuse Warning Network, which tracks emergency room visits and deaths. It said that Darvon-related deaths rose to 503 in 2007, from 446 in 2006. In both years, about 20 percent were suicides. The network covers only about one-third of the U.S. population.

• (images) - Ghost towns of North Dakota
• Rolling Stone magazine interviewed Steve Jobs in 2003, talking about the digital music industry.  See how dead-on Jobs was back at the beginnings of the portable media player age.  Now if Apple could just make iTunes not suck
  

  Jobs correctly predicted that attempts by the major labels to find a technological solution to piracy would fail. When it came to subscription music services, he said the public would reject them. He foresaw a day when iTunes would sell 1 billion tracks a year–a bold statement, considering that at the time, iTunes had only sold 20 million songs.

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