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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...
...every woman will be able to do this initially," says Dr. Freedolph Anderson, who is leading the study. Some women, for instance, may at first experience breakthrough bleeding, something that often happens when women skip periods using standard birth-control pills. But with some fine tuning, women can learn to turn their cycles off and on to suit their busy schedules. And if all goes well--and if the Food and Drug Administration approves--Seasonale, the first pill produced for that purpose, could reach the shelves of U.S. pharmacies...
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...