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...book, The Doctors' Case Against the Pill, is widely credited with sparking the women's-health movement of the '70s. Pioneering author-activist Barbara Seaman began to research the high-estrogen birth-control pill after readers of her magazine column complained of painful symptoms. Seaman's book, which exposed side effects, including stroke, heart attack and depression, led to highly publicized Senate hearings and ultimately to mandated warning labels and patient-information inserts. She was 72 and had lung cancer...
...follow these subjects for heart disease, various cancers, stroke, fractures and other causes of death. They found, to their surprise, that the women who had taken HT for three to eight years had a 12% greater risk of overall death than women who had been assigned a placebo pill...
...general public, we must acknowledge that the increased awareness of mental illness these ads have generated have had the positive effect of getting information about treatments to those who may suffer from mental illness. All of this misinformed and ignorant talk of drug companies turning Americans into unthinking pill-popping drones runs the very serious risk of discouraging those same people from seeking the help they so desperately need...
...misconception may prove to be the bitterest pill to swallow. Though proponents of the “overmedication” argument may believe that they have their countrymen’s best interests in mind, their ignorant and often plainly false pronouncements may only serve to dissuade an already under-reached population from seeking the treatment they need. After all, while there’s no such thing as a happy pill, there is such thing as a loud and uninformed...
...about generational conflict and Indian politics. Speaking of which: Mmmmmm. Indian food.Food, or the lack thereof, can be a distracting force from work, especially during the harrowing weeks before thesis deadlines. It’s getting to the point when many seniors wish they could take their meals in pill form for optimal efficiency, but when used properly, food can be a reminder of the cultivated life you once led and the rich existence that awaits after your thesis, as well as a source of energy to help you reach the works cited page.We aren’t particularly concerned...