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Jorgensen is not alone. Practically since the Pill was introduced in 1960, women have used it to manipulate the timing of their periods--something the contraceptive was not designed to do. But what has been an off-label practice may soon become mainstream. Researchers at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk are testing a new contraceptive formula, called Seasonale, which can reduce the number of periods a woman experiences to as few as four a year...
Americans are failing to reduce the number of abortions in large measure because our society does little to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The situation does not reach the extremes of Japan, where access to the pill is strictly limited and abortion is the most common form of birth control, but clearly abortion is an abused right in the United States...
...song "Purple Haze," transforming the "Star-Spangled Banner" into an anthem of alienation at Woodstock in 1969. In death he has become a standard by which to judge the pop stars who have come after him. Although he died at age 27 of asphyxiation brought on by a sleeping-pill overdose, and has now been dead longer than he was alive, he's still releasing attention-getting...
...Nixon the pill-gobbler, who during the White House years consumed Dilantin like M & M's. The drug, an anti-convulsant usually prescribed to forestall petit-mal epileptic seizures, was also supposed to be an anti-irritant and mood stabilizer. Summers says Nixon took it in order to relieve the stresses of his job and, well, of being such an odious thing as Richard Nixon...
...present in red wine, but it seems beer might be an even better source. Alas, achieving maximum health benefits would require a bit more chugging than most folks would like--up to hundreds of pints daily. The solution? Researchers hope ultimately to capture the brew's benefits in a pill...