From Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston. Address reprint requests to Dr. Hesketh at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, HOQ Rm. 224, 736 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02135, or at [email protected].
Dr. Hesketh reports receiving consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Helsinn, Merck, MGI Pharma, Sanofi-Aventis, Schering-Plough, and Solvay; lecture fees from GlaxoSmithKline and Merck; and grant support from Merck, MGI Pharma, and Sanofi-Aventis. No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
I thank Paul L. Andrews and Steven M. Grunberg for their insightful and extraordinarily helpful comments and Sarah Francis for her expert editorial assistance with an earlier draft of the manuscript.