Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Virazon. Reaching a white marker cylinder at the 20-ft. depth, they stopped, treading water for three minutes, before rising again to a second marker, at the 10-ft. level. There they waited for eleven minutes, passing the time by penciling messages to each other on a roughened Plexiglas tablet. The scheduled pauses were decompression stops that allowed the excess dissolved nitrogen to leave their bodies gradually; in a faster ascent, the nitrogen would have come out of solution too rapidly, forming gas bubbles in the tissues or blood vessels, a painful and sometimes fatal consequence known as the "bends...
...question of safety is a major FDA concern. Minoxidil is a potent drug, and taken orally in tablet form it can have serious adverse effects, including disturbing the heart's rhythm. (Minoxidil's ability to grow hair was a side effect, discovered during tests of the oral medication.) Some subjects using the 2% lotion have complained of skin itching, scaling and blistering. Ten subjects enrolled in the hair-growing tests have died, but their deaths, according to Upjohn, were not related to use of the lotion. However, no one knows the consequences of dabbing on the drug for 20 years...
...Weintraub already considers his video camera, electronic tablet and IBM PC AT to be tools of his trade, enabling him to "talk to his patients through a picture." The technology, he says, stems from "the thought that you can capture a human image and develop the software to manipulate its parts." Weintraub captures the image of a new patient with his camera, stores a digitized record of it in his computer and then uses his stylus to smooth over wrinkles and remove unsightly bumps. Invoking a software program developed with the help of Artist Nancy Burson for electronically "aging" photographs...
Even many pain relievers contain caffeine. Anacin, for example, has 32 mg of caffeine in each tablet to counterbalance the drowsiness effect of pure aspirin, Weidner said...
...wall of the lobby of The Boston Globe's Dorchester offices a marble tablet reads: "My aim has been to make the Globe a cheerful, attractive and useful paper ... that it should help men, women and children to get some of the sunshine of life, to be better and happier because of the Globe...