Word: pilling
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When she isn’t eating pucks in net, Boe hopes to send back some rubber pill regurgitation to the third-best offense in the nation. While Boe will rely on Harvard’s defense—tops in the nation, allowing only 1.24 goals per game—to help clear out the puck, she might have the added help of an injury-laden Big Green squad...
...likely increase if the Bush Administration chooses to exercise its march-in rights in the Norvir and Xalatan cases. That’s because the Essential Inventions petitions include a clever stipulation that would require generic producers to contribute a small sum to an R&D fund for every pill they sell. Generic manufacturers could easily afford to make these contributions while offering cheaper prices and earning healthy profits to boot...
...would anyone looking for the health benefits of red wine choose a little pill over a nice glass of Pinot Noir? Well, calorie counters or teetotalers might. At least that's what the makers of a bumper crop of new red-wine pills are banking on. The latest entry in the burgeoning wine-supplement market is Longevinex, which boasts that its pills are the only ones that both come in airtight capsules and--mon Dieu!--are made of real red-wine extract from France. Packed into each Longevinex capsule is an active ingredient roughly equivalent to between...
Already, futuristic health-care devices are leaping off the drafting boards. Among the new inventions currently in circulation that could improve your well-being: the LifeShirt, a vest that monitors cardiac, pulmonary and respiratory activity as well as posture; the M2A capsule, a pill that when ingested reports on the functioning of your intestines; a nurse bot named Pearl that will take your vital signs and retrieve basic items; and the Health Dashboard, inspired by the dashboard in your car, which displays everything from environmental metrics like the pollen index and flu trends to personal data like blood pressure, cholesterol...
...risk of suffering adverse events, some of which can be life threatening. These risks include potential side effects from inappropriately prescribed medications, dangerous drug interactions or side effects due to drug contamination." Indeed. But at the same time the FDA is zealously guarding the northern border against errant pill entry, TIME's investigation suggests the real picture is quite different from the one painted by the FDA and some members of Congress...