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Clever advertising efforts on the part of drug companies magnify my sense of the absurd. The press package sent to us by Levitra—the new Viagra-like pill that lasts for hours—contains folded pens that become erect at the press of a button, and a stopwatch. Awesome...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli, | Title: Headlining Science | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...more have since been approved.) Jacobs' doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston enrolled her in a clinical trial for a combination of two of those agents, Tarceva and Avastin, last August. "The difference is like night and day," says Jacobs. "I take a pill every day, and every three weeks I go in for an infusion, which takes about 30 minutes." After nearly a year on the experimental cocktail, she has seen her primary lung cancer shrink more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Surviving Cancer | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

Nonetheless, his outspokenness remains a difficult pill for many faculty to swallow...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Under the Lights: Summers Addresses National Audience | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...SKINNY PILL: Pharmaceutical companies are chasing drugs that prevent or reduce weight gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Jun. 7, 2004 | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...flew Martin B-26 Marauders, which were, without any doubt, the best bombers in the whole wide world. Several weeks prior to June 5, the squadron doctor had passed out a small pill to each crew member. He said the pills were intended to keep the crews awake in case we had to work around the clock. Everybody knew that this was in preparation for D-day. I don't know how they worked on anybody else, but they kept me awake for three nights and three days, completely unable to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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