Word: drugged
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...more serious than lice. Why, 20 years ago, a bottle of Kwell, a hot dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate] aren't working as well as they used to either," says University of Miami lice expert Terri Meinking. Such insecticide products all have...
...only are the conventional delousing drugs less efficient, researchers say, but they can also engender maddening side effects, like the "lindane crazies": a drug-induced syndrome that isn't in the medical literature but is nonetheless real for its victims. "They come in with things taped to little pieces of paper," Serrano says. "It's just bits of cotton or lint. They say, 'I feel them right here,' but there's nothing. When you ask them what they've been using, they say, 'I've been using lindane for the past six months...
...with a better, synthetic substitute to help women in need of long-term hormone-replacement therapy after menopause. A new study published in Wednesday?s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that scientists may have made a significant discovery about the properties of the osteoporosis drug raloxifene. In a study of more than 7,000 women, researchers found that postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who were treated with raloxifene for three years reduced their risk of breast cancer by 76 percent...
...fits into the body?s estrogen receptors in such a way as to both increase bone density and block breast cancer. There are apparent side effects to raloxifene, however, such as an increased risk of blood clots. And there are also side effects to the other well-known estrogenlike drug, tamoxifen, which can increase the risk of uterine cancer. "A new study is now under way to compare the benefits and risks of the two drugs," says Gorman. The perfect designer estrogen has yet to be found, she notes, but researchers? immense interest in the subject should provide women with...
...banking bored him, and the gay Greenwich Village milieu that he slipped into was full of scruffy radicals, drug-addled theater queens and goofy twentysomethings fleeing Midwest bigotry. Milk befriended or had sex with many of them (including Craig Rodwell, who would help lead the 1969 riots outside the Stonewall bar that launched the gay movement). By the early 1970s, Milk had moved to San Francisco, enraptured by its flourishing hippie sensibilities...