Word: depoe
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...children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad's 20-year-old daughter Nadia also has two children, and she too says she wants no more. In fact, the only difference in their family-planning strategies is the method of contraception: injections of the drug Depo-Provera for the mother and an IUD for the daughter...
...America for pedophiliac priests: St. Luke Institute in Maryland and the facility operated by the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. At St. Luke the regimen involves breaking down denial and incorporates 12-step programs to control sexual addictions. It also provides drug therapy involving Depo-Provera, a synthetic compound, similar to the female hormone progesterone that lowers the sex drive. In its nine years St. Luke has treated 137 priests for pedophilia and ephebophilia, the sexual obsession with postpubescent children. The center operated by the Servants of the Paraclete has treated about 400 clergymen for "psychosexual...
Bowman says she advises students that their choices are abstinence, the condom or the condom with vaginal spermicides, the diaphragm, the pill or depo-provera, a hormone administered by injection...
...industrial average went over 3700 for the first time ever, bearing with it the yields on many stock and bond funds. The average aggressive-growth fund has risen 29% in the past 12 months. Corporate-bond funds gained 13% overall. Commercial banks, fully aware how anemic their certificate-of-depo sit rates look in comparison, are actively luring customers into the wealth-generating world of funds. As a result, mutual funds sold through banks now account for about 15% of all new fund sales...
...drug, but its new use fetches a new -- and much higher -- price. Previously a treatment for cancer, Depo-Provera was approved in the U.S. in October as a contraceptive. But its maker, Upjohn, is now charging doctors and clinics around $30 for a three-month shot -- more than double its earlier price -- which means women will pay about $50. Upjohn maintains it is recouping drug-development costs, but doctors argue that research ended long ago and that many countries have used Depo-Provera as a birth-control agent for years...