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Invented by a Danish physician in 1984, the female condom is already available under the name Femidom in Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway and Switzerland, and will go on sale this month in France. The version made by Wisconsin Pharmacal is a 7-in.-long polyurethane sheath with a ring on each end. The inner ring is inserted into the vagina, much like a diaphragm, while the other ring remains outside...
Multiple sclerosis is considered an autoimmune disease, caused by the biological equivalent of friendly fire. For reasons that remain vague, cells of the immune system turn their potent chemical weapons against the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers in the spinal cord and brain. While the severity of the disease varies widely, the resulting nerve damage can cause progressive disablement that, after two decades, leaves 30% of patients in wheelchairs...
...same journal, scientists revealed that multiple sclerosis, the crippling nervous-system disease, may be linked to white blood cells with a specific genetic rearrangement. These white cells seem to destroy the sheath that surrounds nerves and protects their ability to conduct messages...
While Clinton sported in a conservative black tuxedo, First Lady Hillary Clinton glided through the evening in a couture beaded blue-violet sheath and flowing over-skirt. All balls were black-tie, the Youth Ball optionally...
...gift for the Shah of Persia, who was assassinated before he could take possession, it is a sword-length blade that is more a showpiece than a weapon. Who would want to bloody a knife with a hilt containing three walnut-size emeralds and a diamond-covered sheath...