Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that kind of piecemeal progress has long been part of the territory in treating pediatric AIDS. AZT, the first drug shown to fight AIDS, wasn't okayed for children until 1990--three years after it had been approved for adults. The syrup form, which is easier for children to swallow, didn't become available until...
...drugs and get them into kids. In some cases they chop up the capsules and mix the medication with applesauce or baby formula. But mashed up protease inhibitors taste so bitter that most kids just spit them out. So doctors are teaching children as young as 2 how to swallow the intact capsules...
...result is a remarkable 137-page account of the tedium, trials and travails--and sometimes even joys--of the locked-in life. Bemoaning his fruitless "physical rehabilitation" sessions, for example, Bauby writes, "I would be the happiest man in the world if I could just properly swallow the saliva that permanently invades my mouth." He lets his readers know that his celebrated wit survived the stroke by pointing up the ironic aspects of his condition. Bauby recalls a contract he signed before his illness to write an updated version of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo...
...countless shares off the trading boards. The supply has shrunk further as companies have bought back bushels of their own shares. Corporate America repurchased nearly $170 billion of its equities last year. Coca-Cola, whose price rose 42% in 1996, helped the increase along by declaring its intention to swallow as many as 206 million shares of Coke, or 8.3% of the company's outstanding common stock...
...HAIR DYE shows its true colors. Research suggests dyes that are applied daily until the desired color is achieved--Grecian Formula, for example--may leave dangerous residues of lead on hands and bathroom surfaces. Of particular concern: kids who touch the stuff and swallow it. Manufacturers dispute these findings...