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WASHINGTON: Sex and drugs are back together again: Here comes the erection pill. The FDA on Friday approved Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra, the first treatment for impotence that doesn't involve surgical implants, vacuum pumps, insertions or injections -- and apparently works quite well...
LESS CAN BE MORE A new lower-dose estrogen pill--half as potent as what is commonly prescribed--is an effective alternative for many postmenopausal women...
...PILL PROBLEM If you're on the blood thinner warfarin, taking 1,300 mg of acetaminophen--equivalent to four regular Tylenol--or more a day can raise the risk of hemorrhage...
After Henry Grunwald became managing editor in 1968, succeeding Otto Fuerbringer, the trend toward cover stories about issues, ideas and events grew more pronounced. Covers on the birth-control pill in 1967 and the battle over busing to achieve desegregation in 1975 focused on the issues more than on the protagonists; photographs of the meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986 and the San Francisco earthquake in 1989 dramatized events. Instead of a Man or Woman of the Year for 1982, TIME designated the computer as Machine of the Year. Amid growing anxiety about the environment, the "Endangered Earth" was named Planet...
...PROSTATE PILL New word on the prostate drug Proscar: besides relieving symptoms of a benign enlarged prostate, it can prevent future complications (like serious urinary-flow problems) or the need for surgery...