Word: pill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, it looks like comfort is once again on the way out. Creases are sharpening, suit materials are stiffening and even thickening. The sugar coating to this bitter pill is a spectrum of new colors--but these colors would make any pill taste sickly sweet. Odd jackets in pink-and-white stripes, odder sweaters in natural-and-vicuna stripes, tight beach pants in canary yellow: the list is horrifying and endless...
...Beeching's bitterest pill was not the price increase, though it marked a 50% rise in ticket prices in 30 months (to 5.25? a mile for first class...
...backfires to a minimum. FDA first provisionally licenses a new drug"for investigational use only" (after testing in animals), whereupon most manufacturers get research physicians to try their product on 1,000 to 3,000 patients. It was this step-by-step procedure that fortuitously kept thalidomide. the sleeping pill now suspected of causing many malformations in babies in Europe and elsewhere (TIME, Feb. 23), off the U.S. markets. A sharp-eyed woman doctor on the FDA staff was not satisfied with a detail in the evidence submitted by the manufacturers with their application for a license. FDA asked...
...that the American Medical Association will take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which, after all, will only save lives. No one expects television companies to devote expensive advertising space to public service pronouncements about smoking and cancer. A nation of health cranks and pill takers will probably go on smoking as before; and the cancer rate will also go on as before...
Patients must take the little white isoniazid pill three times a day with meals, for at least a year after their disease is arrested. Members of a TB victim's immediate family should also take isoniazid, especially youngsters with a positive tuberculin test reaction. The cost, never great, is now down to $1.50 per 100 pills for private patients; and health agencies, which distribute most of the pills free, can get them for as little...