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...called one of its articles "Nazi-like" and compared it to "chemical warfare on children." The new study, published in the Journal Wednesday, says that doctors can quickly and safely induce abortions by using a combination of two other drugs to produce the effect of the controversial French abortion pill RU-486. Although 66 violent incidents occurred at U.S. abortion clinics this year, Terry, who delivered his diatribe by fax, shrugged off suggestions his comments could be incendiary. But TIME's David Van Biema cautions: "The threat probably won't come from Terry himself, but from fringe elements who could...
Many experts find these plans too optimistic. Just because researchers have not noted worrisome side effects yet, critics say, does not mean that none will emerge. Leptin, they point out, is a serious drug, not the easy-to-swallow "thin pill" dieters have dreamed of for so long. To do its work, leptin would probably have to be either injected daily, like insulin, or implanted under the skin for the rest of one's life. In the laboratory experiments reported last week, the obese mice started regaining weight as soon as the injections stopped. Even with a boost from something...
...MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT and our culture think every woman wants to look younger than she is and have a menstrual period forever? I'll be happy to take estrogen as soon as they come up with a pill that makes flabby, wrinkled, balding men over 50 look younger too. MEREDITH SMALL Ithaca, New York...
Today estrogen in its various forms -- pills, patches and creams -- is flowing as never before. Cancer risks have been diminished, doctors believe, by lowering the dosages used in hormone-replacement therapy (HRT). The risk of uterine cancer, in particular, can be virtually eliminated, experts say, by adding synthetic progesterone (progestin) to the estrogen prescription, either combined in one capsule or as a separate pill. Meanwhile a raft of studies showing new and unexpected benefits has propelled medical enthusiasm for the treatment to huge, if not quite Wilsonian, proportions. Estrogen, it seems, can prevent or slow many of the ravages...
...Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...