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...call for a return to a more thorough drug-testing process, even if it means postponing the approval of new treatments. Perhaps most stunning of all, the activists would agree -- under certain conditions -- to so-called placebo trials, in which some patients receive a sugar pill in place of an experimental drug. Just a few years ago, activists were unanimous in denouncing such traditional testing methods as unethical when it came to the treatment of AIDS. But then doctors and patients started to complain that the speeded-up approval process didn't provide them with enough information to make...
...Friday through Sept. 16. Taken together, this seamy decalogue shows the '50s as a neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through. Each movie revives the battles between tough guys and sweet chicks; each recalls hot sex before the pill and those enduring teen compulsions: to rebel and to belong...
...Dior's A-line dress has swept Europe and the United States, charm bracelets are in and the precursor to the pill box hat Jackie Kennedy Onuses made so famous is smaller here and squatter. Manners reign supreme and the neuroses Arthur Miller wrote about are running rampant, but have not been made into pop psychology yet. It is the years when the stream-lined apple-green kitchens appealed to the June Cleaver housewife, fully equipped with automatic dishwasher, garbage disposal and cabinets full of rum. Something eerie lurks behind the placidity of the 1950s setting and L.B. Jeffries...
...passion for hardcore porn. "The medication redefined what was essential and what was contingent about his own personality," writes his psychiatrist Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac. Or consider the hyperactive child who takes Ritalin and discovers that now other kids will play with him. Social acceptance in a pill. Shyness, too, may succumb to a chemical cure. Research suggests that 1 in 5 babies is predisposed to be timid because of hypersensitivity of the amygdala -- a small structure in the brain. Fixing such problems may sound like better living through chemistry, but it rattles the very bedrock of identity...
...story is a flashback to an old nightmare. Yes, Das Dores took the same medication that made headlines 33 years ago when it produced 12,000 severely deformed children around the world. But while the word thalidomide became synonymous with tragedy and its use as a sleeping pill was banned, the drug did not disappear. In fact, it has made a quiet comeback. For all its dangers, thalidomide has benefits that have made it an increasingly valuable medicine when used carefully. Misuse, however, has caused a grim side effect: the reappearance of "thalidomide babies...