Word: orall
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...study in Kenya has shown that HIV-positive women who are pregnant or taking oral contraceptives are likelier than average to infect their sexual partners, maybe because of changes in the cervix...
...French began testing the new method of using RU 486 that does not require going to a clinic for a follow-up shot. An oral prostaglandin, commercially marketed as Cytotec by the American manufacturer G.D. Searle, enabled women to abort simply by swallowing a combination of pills. The efficiency rate rose from 95.5% to 96.9%, and the speed of the procedure improved. In 61% of the cases, the uterine contents were expelled within four hours after taking Cytotec, in contrast to 47% in the case of prostaglandin injections. Although there were instances of nausea and diarrhea, which are also common...
...wrote one member of the class of 1943. This advice was followed in spades. The 1943 oral histories and questionnaires were answered by most of the class, and this mass of information was summarized by Harriet Belin, Ruth Helman, and Rita Shea. It forms a good picture of the young women who came to Cambridge to go to college 50 years...
...virus which causes AIDS, is primarily transmitted though vaginal or anal intercourse without a condom or through sharing intravenous needles with an infected person. It may also be passed from mother to baby during pregnancy or labor, and possibly through breast feeding. The remaining routes of transmission (blood transfusion, oral sex, organ transplant, etc.) present only extremely minor risks (on the order of one in hundreds of thousands). There is an insufficient amount of the virus in saliva and even an "open" blister to present a danger of transmission. Compared to other viruses, HIV survives only a very short time...
Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell said the process of developing an "oral competency test" will begin this summer with examinations of other institutions' policies on the issue...