Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medicate or not to medicate? The dilemma can be traced back to 1987, when the FDA approved Prozac as the first of a new class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Prozac had none of the more serious side effects and risks of the earlier antidepressants and worked faster to control depressive symptoms. Prozac and the other SSRIs (they now include Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox and Celexa) had one other advantage over the older, tricyclic antidepressants: children responded to them. One of the few recent studies on the subject showed that among depressed children ages...
...oral contraceptive for men. The pill was administered to 23 bold volunteers; the majority produced no active sperm after three months. The sperm loss was temporary, but the side effects required subjects to use testosterone patches in order to keep their manly form. To overcome this marketing dilemma, we asked the fertile minds at various ad agencies to think up some potent campaigns...
...dilemma that the students faced was the feeling of individual moral obligation to obtain medical assistance for their intoxicated guest versus their concern for any personal repercussions or consequences (disciplinary or legal) they or the individual might face. This is an uncomfortable and difficult situation. Yet, the effect and consequences of inaction could be far more devastating...
...dilemma that the students faced was the feeling of individual moral obligation to obtain medical assistance for their intoxicated guest versus their concern for any personal repercussions or consequences (disciplinary or legal) they or the individual might face. This is an uncomfortable and difficult situation. Yet, the effect and consequences of inaction could be far more devastating...
...discussion then moved on to an everyday dilemma for many Harvard students--whether to give money to the homeless in Harvard Square...