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...days. But the effort to make the morning-after pill available as an over-the-counter drug is sailing along pretty smoothly. Two FDA advisory committees voted last week 28 to 4 to recommend that the pill known as Plan B be as easy to buy as condoms or cough syrup. Plan B is a high-dose oral contraceptive that prevents fertilization or the implantation of a fertilized egg within 72 hours after intercourse. (Unlike the drug RU 486, it cannot induce an abortion.) "The vote," says committee member James Trussell, director of Princeton's office of population research, "provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Oops ... Time For Plan B? | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...Cough Near Me Chills? Fever? Sore throat? You could be about to join millions around the world who've fallen victim to the latest variants of the influenza bug. Just hope your virus isn't the vicious "Fujian flu," which originated in China at the start of the year and caused major outbreaks between June and August in New Zealand and Australia, where at one point around 30% of school-age children were affected. It arrived in Ireland in early September and soon spread to Britain, where it has killed six children. Simultaneously it appeared in Spain, Portugal and Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...sanctuary in a society that has declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette - a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 2007. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Great American Smoke | 11/22/2003 | See Source »

...their grand plans for the singer's whirlwind two-week European publicity tour - to promote the Nov. 17 release of her fourth album, a pulsating dance disc called In the Zone, on which she moans and groans to a more grown-up and blatantly sexual beat - shiver and cough to a halt. Spears has made only one stop on the tour before Paris, five days and at least one allegedly shaky night in London. Now the rest of her jam-packed itinerary - showcases in Germany and Spain, a much-anticipated appearance in Scotland for the MTV Europe Music Awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes On Britney | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

...respiratory disease that can cause fever, cough, sore throat, headache, chills and muscle aches, according to aninformational sheet provided by UHS. It is contagious and is spread through...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UHS Helps Students Fend Off Flu | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

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