Word: dose
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...sale without a prescription, hoping that more smokers will be induced to quit. Smokers have long called for the approval of nonprescription patches, which send more nicotine through the blood stream than the nicotine gum already available over the counter. The FDA's approval of McNeil Consumer Products' one-dose nicotine patch, Nicotrol, will give the company a marked edge over the competition by allowing its product -->
...Diabetics have low chromium levels. Now reports on people in China suggest that high-dose chromium supplements may help normalize glucose and insulin levels in patients with Type 2 DIABETES, the most common form of the illness...
...everyday objects and systems" seems unlikely to overturn the neo-utopianism of the Wired generation, that's all the more reason to attend closely to it. For though his history of technological "revenge effects" ranges freely over the past two centuries, most of his examples take a healthy dose of air out of today's overinflated enthusiasm with high tech...
...rather than meek turn-of-the-century waifs searching for love in all the wrong outfits. But for Blue, the narrator and centerpiece of Mark O'Donnell's unusually witty novel Getting Over Homer (Knopf; 193 pages; $21), there is at least hope beyond the sort that a good dose of Zoloft could offer...
...State law that prohibited physicians from helping their patients die. It's already legal for doctors to withhold or withdraw treatment at a patient's request. Now, as long as a patient is in the final stages of a terminal disease, mentally competent and able to take a lethal dose of medicine on his or her own, the state can't bar a doctor from prescribing that dose...