Word: pill
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...these kids' lives are the outward sign of their invisible illness. The Spartan infirmary in the main cabin is known as Club Meds. Each day as the 80 campers fish, play basketball, paint or make lanyards, a team of volunteer nurses sit around a table on which hundreds of pills are lined up like jelly beans. If only they were. In a harsh reminder of just how different this camp is, the nurses carry those pills to the camp's 10 cabins two to three times a day. Some kids must pop as many as 30, which can inflict hours...
...nothing was smooth prompted me to see my doctor and begin HRT. I take half the recommended dose of Prempro, and I get along wonderfully. I am concerned about what the Women's Health Initiative study has shown, but for now I will keep taking my little half a pill each day. SARAH J. HEARN Kinsley, Kans...
...some, the damage has already been done. Over the objections of her parents, Wang Ting, a 16-year-old computer student at a Shanghai technical school, started taking an outlawed Chinese diet pill called Qingzhisu several years ago. By September 2001, she had succeeded in dropping from 78 kilos to 57 kilos, but she also complained of headaches and her eyes seemed to bulge...
...Some consumers say risks are minimal and worth taking. Li Gang, 30, lost 15 kilos in a month while taking a Chinese diet pill. There were troubling side effects. "I became very impatient, and I felt my brain was slow," says Li, who works for a foreign consulting company in Beijing. But he says he was pleased to be slimmer and "In any case, (the side effects) went away when I stopped taking" the drug...
...passed away last year. "The diet pill companies take advantage of young girls and boast results that aren't real," says Wang's father, Wang Quikan. "Why aren't these things more controlled?" Wang sued the manufacturer but the case was dropped by a Shanghai court for insufficient evidence. "Society's influence is very bad," he says. "It took away my healthy young girl...