Word: pill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...produce a new welfare bill of their own, since it could hardly help their election prospects--or Dole's--to let the President out-tough them on this issue. Congress has already made some important concessions to his earlier objections. The Medicaid block grants that Clinton called a "poison pill" have been removed, and many softeners sought by the Governors have been added: child-nutrition programs, extra aid for recession-hit states, money for child care, foster care and adoption, and medical benefits for working families...
...hour FDA hearing on Ru-486, the "abortion pill," had the controversy dullified right out of it, despite some questionable queries and shady studies upon which the recommendation was based. A Los Angeles Times reporter commented somewhere around hour eight that she was "mired in the depths of journalistic hell." In other words, she was bored...
Eight out of 10 american women of childbearing age have taken the Pill to prevent pregnancy, yet most are unaware that the oral contraceptive has another use. In a somewhat higher dose, it can serve as a "morning after" drug to avoid pregnancy after unprotected...
That is hardly news in Europe, where for more than a decade millions of women have been using the Pill for that purpose. And it is hardly a secret to U.S. pharmaceutical companies. But drugmakers have been reluctant to market or label their products as emergency contraception pills in the U.S., fearing that it would subject them to lawsuits, protests or even boycotts...
...Research on more than 1,000 women indicates that, unlike old versions of the BIRTH CONTROL PILL, the new ones containing low amounts of estrogen do not appear to increase the risk of stroke in healthy women...