Word: orality
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...three times more frequent among victims of this type of stroke than among controls. A similar but somewhat weaker link was found between the Pill and hemorrhagic strokes, caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. Nearly twice as many victims of such strokes used oral contraceptives as did the controls...
Doctors believe that the Pill's effect on clotting accounts for the increased incidence of thrombotic strokes. Why the Pill causes hemorrhagic strokes is less certain, but some doctors suspect that estrogen, a female hormone that is a prime ingredient of oral contraceptives, may aggravate hypertension...
Still, most doctors refuse to condemn the Pill. They feel that the risk of stroke even among women who use oral contraceptives is extremely small. Britain's Dr. Martin Vessey, a leading student of Pill problems, reports that out of every million women using the Pill, only 100-one in 10,000-will suffer strokes attributable to it each year. Of these, only five will...
...which makes the Widener stacks look like a tot lot, the government has stored about 10 million pages of Kennedy's papers, along with 2 million pages from the Democratic National Committee. There are 30,000 books, 62,000 photographs, 2 million feet of motion picture film, and 1000 oral histories, transcribed from interviews with people who dealt with Kennedy in the White House...
...recently reported that applications of ordinary ether or chloroform will clear up herpes sores in as little as two days, apparently by altering the virus so as to make it more vulnerable to the body's natural defenses. Other doctors are finding the antiviral drug isoprinosine effective. An oral drug that seems to bolster the body's immune response to the virus (TIME, March 19), isoprinosine has been used against both herpes simplex and genital herpes infections and has stopped progression of the disease and initiated healing within 48 hours. So far, however, one goal has eluded scientists...