Word: pill
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...counted enough sheep to fill a paddock, but you still can't get the shut-eye you need. Do you a) start counting goats; b) get out of bed and read; or c) take a sleeping pill? If you picked reading, your restless nights may soon be over. According to a report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, adopting a few basic habits--like limiting the amount of time you spend in bed--works better than pills or goats in controlling chronic insomnia...
After excluding patients whose insomnia may have resulted from some other condition, such as depression, researchers divided the remaining 78 subjects into four groups. One group took the sleeping pill Restoril. The second group underwent cognitive-behavior therapy designed, among other things, to promote better sleep habits. The third group received both medication and behavior therapy, and the last group took a placebo, or sugar pill. Each of the groups was treated for eight weeks...
...gave him $30,000 and told him to develop a contraceptive that was "harmless, entirely reliable, and aesthetically satisfactory to husband and wife." Within 10 years, however, Pincus and his colleagues delivered, inventing the drug that sparked the sexual revolution. Introduced in the U.S. in 1960, the birth control pill, known simply as the Pill, was an ovulation-suppressing mix of estrogen and progestin that was 99% effective...
Cellasene contains, among other things, extracts of Ginkgo biloba, sweet clover and bladder wrack (a seaweed). It arrived in U.S. drugstores last week and got lots of attention on TV news shows. Yet experts say there's no solid evidence that Cellasene has any beneficial effect on cellulite. The pill's 15 minutes of fame provides a lesson in the power and perils of hype...
...informational questions," says PCC co-director Angela L. Peluse '01. "Like the condom broke, I forgot to take a [birth control] pill, I threw up a pill, what about emergency contraception...