Word: dose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Annual dose of human growth hormone for a child with a severe deficiency...
...expensive technologies are used even before it is clear that they're needed. That may be the case with at least one new biotech drug, Centoxin, which is available on a limited basis to treat hospital-acquired infections that can cause fatal septic shock (estimated cost: $3,800 a dose). Trouble is, since the condition can kill so quickly, doctors will have to decide whether to administer the drug before they are sure the patient needs...
Alan: He took Seconal -- a lethal dose, far above a therapeutic dose -- phenobarbital, codeine and alcohol. He was legally drunk. The book tells you to chase the pills down with vodka, and we found an open bottle of vodka in his apartment...
...double dose of bleak news led analysts to suggest the midyear rebound had been a false start--"a blip on an underlying trend of a very sick economy" in the words of Allen Sinai of the Boston...
...limbic system, which plays a major role in the genesis of sleep and the emotions. Because it lasts in the body only a matter of hours, it can trigger a boomerang effect, unleashing the very anxiety it was meant to tame. Adverse reactions become more common the higher the dose. Doses of as much as 1.0 mg were once prescribed in Europe, but the recommended dose is now only 0.25 mg. In most cases where Halcion has allegedly been linked to violent behavior, the people took more than is deemed safe, had been drinking alcohol, or had been...