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...record producer and released an album, Left of the Middle, that became a smash hit. When Left recently debuted in the U.S., it entered the charts at No. 10, outselling the new Pearl Jam album and beating the first-week sales of Alanis Morissette's 1995 debut, Jagged Little Pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Angst with Sugar on It | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

REDUX REDUX Taking the diet drug for several months does not cause heart-valve problems, at least according to a study by its manufacturer. The finding contradicts earlier reports of heart-valve troubles in Redux users, some of whom took the pill for longer periods of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Sanger was past 80 when she saw the first marketing of a contraceptive pill, which she had helped develop. But legal change was slow. It took until 1965, a year before her death, for the Supreme Court to strike down a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraception, even by married couples. Extended to unmarried couples only in 1972, this constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy would become as important to women's equality as the vote. In 1973 the right to privacy was extended to the abortion decision of a woman and her physician, thus making abortion a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Margaret Sanger | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Irwin Goldstein could hardly wait for the FDA to approve Viagra. The renowned Boston University urologist is so excited about last week's approval of the first-ever impotence pill for men that he is opening a new sexual-dysfunction clinic, and will soon begin prescribing the drug--for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cross-Gender Sex Pill | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

ORAL FIX The drug troglitazone (a one-a-day pill) helps Type 2 diabetics control their blood-sugar level. On average, patients taking troglitazone can cut their insulin dose by a third; many can give up the shots altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Apr. 6, 1998 | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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