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Each month K.C. Esperance, 31, a San Francisco nurse practitioner, suffered menstrual cramps so agonizing that she would take to her bed, curl up and pray that she would live through the next couple of days. Doctor after doctor gave her the same ineffectual advice: rest, take some codeine and bear with...
...disease begins is something of a mystery. One theory ascribes it to "retrograde menstruation." Instead of flowing down through the cervix and vagina, some menstrual blood and tissue back up through the Fallopian tubes and spill out into the pelvic cavity (see chart). Normally this errant flow is harmlessly absorbed, but in some cases the stray tissue may implant itself outside the uterus and continue to grow. A second theory suggests that the disease arises from misplaced embryonic cells that have lain scattered around the abdominal cavity since birth. When the monthly hormonal cycles begin at puberty, says Dr. Howard...
...decision will cost Johnson & Johnson as much as $150 million to recall its capsules and scrap their production. In addition to Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson made and sold capsule forms of Sine-Aid, a remedy for sinus congestion, and Dimensyn, a medicine for the relief of menstrual pain. The capsule form of Tylenol amounted to about 30% of the pain reliever's estimated 1985 sales of $525 million. To make up for its loss, the company last week began promoting Tylenol in the form of caplets, which are the smooth, elongated tablets that Johnson & Johnson began producing in 1983, after seven...
...magnesium link may help explain why toxic shock typically occurs on the fourth day of a woman's period, when the menstrual flow has diminished. During the previous days, the volume of fluid is greater, and, Kass believes, there is probably enough unabsorbed magnesium present to keep toxin production in check...
...those women who make up roughly one- third of the Japanese work force have been treated as a species apart. They have been banned by law from working more than two hours of overtime in any day or, with a few exceptions, past 10 at night, and allowed monthly menstrual leave with full pay in certain strenuous jobs. All that changed last week when, after months of debate, the Diet, Japan's parliament, approved a bill providing equal employment opportunity for women...