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...completely prevent the enzymes from doing their job. According to Dr. Jonathan Hauptman, director of therapeutic research at Hoffmann-La Roche, the body produces lipase in such quantities that the drug is only about 30% effective, no matter how much of it you ingest. If you took a dose of orlistat and then ate 100 grams of fat (roughly four Big Macs), 70 of those grams would be absorbed as usual and 30 grams would pass, undigested, through the intestine...
...Moreno can openly join her fans in crediting the column with having introduced a dose of much-needed humor to the Law School's overly serious, heavily politicized environment...
...strikes in childhood, patients lose the ability to make any insulin. For these cases, the standard daily treatment is a blood test and one or two self- administered insulin shots. The shots keep the patient alive and well, but blood-sugar levels swing sharply, from relatively low after a dose of insulin to much higher before the next injection. These fluctuations gradually cause damage to the body's organs...
...less pain. "Women tolerate it much better," says Dr. Elisabeth Aubeny of the Broussais Hospital in Paris, a testing ground for RU 486 in 1984. For French taxpayers, who foot 80% of the bill for each abortion through their national health-care system, there is also an advantage: a dose of Cytotec costs only 72 cents, vs. $22 for the prostaglandin shot...
...failure. Last year a pro-choice group called Abortion Rights Mobilization decided to force a court challenge of the import ban imposed on RU 486 by the Bush Administration in 1989. The organization helped Leona Benten, a pregnant 29-year-old California social worker, fly to England, obtain a dose of RU 486, then try to bring it into the U.S. through New York City's Kennedy Airport. Customs officials seized the pills. The ensuing legal battle went up to the Supreme Court, which refused to order the government to return the pills. Benten subsequently had a surgical abortion...