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...generally okay to answer the phone as long as you keep the phone call short and sweet. But never—under any circumstances—answer the phone while comforting a sobbing friend who is dealing with an uncooperative significant other, parent, TF, or weight-loss regimen...
...doctors to use stronger and stronger drugs. Antibiotics should be prescribed only for bacterial infections and not for colds or the flu, which are caused by viruses. Once you start taking an antibiotic, you should always take the full course, even if you start feeling better before finishing the regimen; otherwise you are just adding to the resistance problem. And please don't insist that your doctor give you an antibiotic when it isn't necessary. Many doctors will cave under pressure, but you shouldn't put them in that position. They really do know what is good...
...rumble started anew when Richard Fleming, a cardiologist in Omaha, Neb., who opposes the Atkins regimen, somehow got the New York City medical examiner's office to send him Atkins' confidential medical report. Such reports are meant to be given only to the next of kin or a physician who has treated the patient. Fleming, who was neither, handed the records to a pro-vegetarian group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization that opposes the meat-loving Atkins movement so vehemently it has a website called atkins diet alert.org The committee then sent the medical examiner...
Choosing not to have a child while at college makes plenty of sense. Not only does a rigorous academic regimen leave little time for the consuming responsibility of raising a child, but sleep deprivation and unhealthy food and drinking habits—virtual cornerstones of college culture—aren’t well-suited for mothers. Besides, for many college women—who first seek a diploma, then a career, then a husband and finally a family—a child before graduation utterly ruins the master plan...
Women in the U.S. are a step closer to getting emergency contraception without the need for a doctor's prescription. An advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the morning-after pill become available over the counter. If approved, Plan B, as the two-pill regimen would be called, would enable women to end pregnancies within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse...