Word: patch
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Desperate for relief, and facing the possibility of radical surgery, Trebilcock went to the Mayo Clinic, where Dr. William Sandborn offered an unusual treatment. He gave the 23-year-old college student a nicotine patch as part of a study to determine its effect on colitis. Normally prescribed to help smokers kick the habit, these patches release a predetermined amount of nicotine through the skin into the bloodstream, where it eases the craving for cigarettes. Physicians have known for some time, however, that nicotine also seems to quiet the symptoms of colitis. So, although the Food and Drug Administration...
...first confirmed kill produced a boost in morale among the ARVN. The numbers game, later termed the "body count," had not yet come into use. But the Vietnamese had already figured out what the Americans wanted to hear. They were forever "proving" kills to me by a patch of blood leading from an abandoned weapon or other circumstantial evidence. Not good enough, I told them. I became the referee in a grisly game, and a V.C. kia required a V.C. body. No body, no credit...
...that is merely recorded. Everything in it is shaped by memory, sympathy, distance and formal imperatives. Nothing is there merely because it "was there." Mark Rothko hated diagonals, but loved Hopper's. Richard Diebenkorn loved diagonals and loved Hopper's too. As well anyone might: the diagonal, the slanting patch (especially of light) becomes a wonderfully expressive element in Hopper, acting both as a structural brace for the actual painted surface and as a sign of fugitive reality in imagined space. In Morning Sun, 1952, you are acutely aware that Jo, the long-limbed, middle-aged woman staring at nothing...
...Thomas, 56, of Baltimore suffered nearly five years with hot flashes, night sweats and sleeplessness. Estrogen completely halted her symptoms and made her feel "wonderful." Barbara Williams, 47, of Chicago was so irritable, she says, that "my family would hate to see me coming home from work." An estrogen patch (plus progesterone pills) evened out her moods. HRT can sometimes alleviate vaguer woes -- the generalized achiness that some women feel and a sense of mental fogging. There is a "euphoric effect or general improvement in mental state," says Cleveland endocrinologist Wulf Utian, co-founder of the North American Menopause Society...
...they gain weight (though it's unclear that estrogen is really to blame). When Lynn Schleeter, 44, of New Brighton, Minnesota, was taking estrogen and progesterone, "I was so lethargic, I couldn't walk around the block." She feels more energetic now that she has thrown away her estrogen patch and switched to a regimen of exercise, vitamins and calcium supplements (to fight osteoporosis...