Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the next few months, four drug companies will introduce similar versions of the transdermal nicotine patch, a palm-size circular envelope that, when applied to the upper arm or back every 24 hours, releases a steady stream of nicotine into the blood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association found that the patch, when administered with proper counseling, doubled the odds that smokers will successfully quit over a six-month period. "It's a major breakthrough in medicine by any measure. It could save thousands of lives," said Dr. Jack Henningfield, chief of clinical...
...experts caution that the device will work only when combined with counseling, which should include advice on setting a "quit date" and on coping with the urges that will persist even with the patch in place. Unfortunately, physicians have a poor record in this regard. Less than half of 2,700 smokers surveyed for a study in last week's Journal said their doctors had ever advised them to kick the habit or even to cut down...
Harvard will also need the rest to patch up its injury-ridden defense...
...scene, letting the horror be just blunt enough for just long enough, then segueing into the release of laughter. She finds the right detail: the raped child from the shacks eyeing an exquisite carved bouquet on the banister as she struggles back downstairs; dogs sniffing at a patch of the mother's burnt skin scraped onto the sidewalk. Her dialogue can jolt the audience with the unexpected, sometimes twice within a few words: just after her rape, the girl regains pride by scorning childish pleasures, saying she feels she is "a woman now -- an old woman." And she utterly avoids...
...Maxwell went over the side of his yacht off the Canary Islands, it was a death scene made to order for pulp publishing. He could have made millions with the tabloid rehash in his popular weeklies, the trash book and the movie and television rights. But without him to patch together such a deal, the ripples from his final fall threatened to sink some of the media empire he had built...