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What is more disturbing is that the ideological bent of these programs makes them inimical to safe-sex programs. On the www.days.org website, a section on birth control tries to scare adolescents away from contraception by lying—stating that “The Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) contains a warning for every birth control pill and device: ‘Patients should be counseled that this product does not protect against HIV infection (Aids) sic or other sexually transmitted diseases.’” This is patently untrue—last time...
ACCUTANE This drug works wonders for severe acne when all else fails. Doctors have long known, however, that Accutane (generic name: isotretinoin) can cause birth defects in pregnant women. Indeed, the drug comes with a black-box warning, the strongest available to the FDA, to that effect. But each year several women still become pregnant while...
...include everybody, it's complicated as hell. When the Founding Fathers set it up, who in the world could have ever envisioned some of the complicated things we get involved in now, which very often are driven by almost a religious belief--like gun control, partial-birth abortion, gay marriage. I think we get driven an awful lot of times by those narrowly focused constituent groups. Sometimes we listen to those real volatile special interests more than doing the work that most people want--and that's staying somewhere in the middle...
...suburbs. In their controversial book exploring the issue, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003), the follow-up to America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible, Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, senior fellows at the Manhattan Institute, argue that black underachievement stems from such factors as low birth weight, which can impair intellectual development, and a high number of single-parent households led by mothers too young to give their children proper educational guidance. Other experts have cited inadequate funding for poor schools and the difficulty of recruiting good teachers to work in them...
...valuable source of knowledge help us all. We should not approach growing old with thoughts of darkness, withdrawal and rejection. We need to enjoy living, no matter what our calendar years. David A. Sorber, M.D. Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. My mother lived for 100 years and 4 months. She gave birth to all nine of her children at home. She had no special diet; in fact she ate exactly what she wanted. She came to the U.S. from Italy at age 19. She never learned to drive, so she walked everywhere. When she was in her 90s, a young mugger tried...