Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the doctor's prescription used to be simple enough. You dutifully swallowed your pills, smeared on your ointment or gulped down your medicine. And that was it. But physicians are finding that the old-fashioned ways of delivering medication can render treatment hopelessly ineffective -- even dangerous. Some people just forget to take pills, and repeated trips to the doctor for shots can be unpleasant and expensive. Tablets and injections can flood the bloodstream with drugs and disperse them unevenly through the system. And drugs can have toxic side effects. With an array of potent, highly specialized new therapeutic drugs...
...heaviest anger seemed to be triggered by charges that fathers sexually abuse their children. A Michigan man said he had applied ointment to his two- year-old daughter, who had vaginitis, and was accused of sexual molestation during his custody battle. After an investigation the charges were dropped. The keynote address was delivered by a former foreign correspondent, Ernest Coates, who had been charged with aggravated sexual assault of his son and daughter but was acquitted. Introduced as someone who "sees his children only in his dreams," the Australian-born Coates claimed he was the victim of state-paid psychologists...
Pritchett's best-known novel is "Mr. Beluncle," first published in 1951, and his famous short stories include "The Fly in the Ointment," and "The Saint...
Acyclovir, developed by the Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., works against herpes infections by inhibiting the ability of the virus to replicate. In 1982 the company was given permission to market the drug in the U.S. in two forms, both under the name Zovirax. As an ointment, the medication somewhat reduced the pain and duration of the outbreaks. In a more potent intravenous solution, it could be administered to patients hospitalized with severe cases. For those sufferers, the drug offered some respite from continual outbreaks and the flu-like symptoms that often accompany major herpes attacks...
...drug works by interfering with the virus' reproductive process. When used as an ointment, however, it merely relieves the discomfort of an initial attack. The FDA is expected to approve the more potent oral form within a few months...