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...other Olympic sport has the competitive picture been so transformed. East Germany doesn't exist anymore; neither does the steroid program that artificially enhanced its athletes. Meanwhile, so much American talent has ripened that Evans didn't qualify for this year's team in the 400-m individual medley, an event in which she won gold four years ago. Overall, U.S. women stand a good chance of winning a record-tying 11 of 15 events, and eight team members rank as at least co-favorites in one or more individual races. For the first time in decades, the U.S. women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming A Bigger Splash | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...swallowing every splintery stick he could get his teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images of his stomach, small intestine and colon ($75); antibiotics and Tagamet for the ulcer ($25); plus five days of hospitalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Mutticare | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

Surfactant production can also be stimulated by the delivery of glucocorticoid, a steroid, to pregnant women. The fetus secretes surfactant into the amniotic fluid, which can then be tested by doctors in amniocentesis to determine whether or not the newborn will have...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Helping to Fight Infant Respiratory Disease | 11/12/1991 | See Source »

With induction of the steroid glucocorticoid into the mother and surfactant replacement therapy, many stillborns are now avoided, she says...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Helping to Fight Infant Respiratory Disease | 11/12/1991 | See Source »

...PLEADS that it has to process 50,000 applications a year. So what? The Harvard College admissions office copes with nearly as many, and while you may get a thin letter from them explaining that you're not a steroid-addled jock or a ninth-generation legacy named Winthrop, they won't simply fail to process your application...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: The Last Bastion of Bolshevism | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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