Word: aftereffect
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...people who did do science to ask a new kind of question. Some scientific revolutions have surprisingly small ideological aftershocks; Michael Faraday's discovery that electricity and magnetism are the same thing was as large a discovery as any in the history of science, but it had a paltry aftereffect...For a new scientific theory to become a model in its time, vastly influential outside its immediate claims, it has to release thinking people from a bond that they had long recognized as too narrow and help them interrogate the world...
...Getting a good night's sleep is an ordeal for 70 million Americans. Medications like Ambien can help, but because they target neurons in the brain that control both wakefulness and muscle relaxation, sometimes they work too well, leaving you groggy the next morning. Neurocrine's Indiplon avoids that aftereffect by selectively targeting just the nerve receptors in the brain that regulate sleep. Patients using Indiplon were able to fall asleep within 15 minutes and sleep an average of an hour longer than those taking other sleep aids. The company, which expects to hear by May whether the FDA will...
...would like to amplify my comments on the RU 486 method of abortion. Research compiled by the American Psychological Association shows that for most women the major psychological aftereffect of abortion is relief and that very few women experience any serious psychological difficulties with abortion. It is possible that of the minority of women who have serious emotional reactions after their abortions, some portion of mifepristone [RU 486] patients may have difficulty confronting the products of conception. However, the experience of mifepristone patients in both Europe and the U.S. clinical trials suggests a high degree of satisfaction with this method...