Word: treating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumer group has asked the FDA to ban prescription sales of a drug for nighttime leg cramps; the group says that quinine sulfate, while effective against malaria, is dangerous when used to treat cramps. An fda ban on over- the-counter brands will take effect in February...
...that human fetal exposure to such chemicals as PCBs could produce disorders affecting behavior, immune-system functioning, memory and learning. She also surveyed the literature on humans exposed to diethylstilbestrol, or DES, a synthetic drug that is related to estrogen. DES can be used to prevent miscarriage, treat prostate and breast cancer or reduce the symptoms of menopause; it can even promote growth in sheep and cows. But in 1971, after studies linked its use by pregnant women with reproductive-system abnormalities, infertility and cancer in their offspring, the FDA decreed that DES should no longer be used to prevent...
...Baker insists that the exiled leader's politics are immaterial. Those like Cheney "who urge walking away because Aristide isn't our kind of democrat are wrong," says Baker. "If supporting democracy is a cornerstone of our foreign policy, which it is and should be, then you can't treat what democracy produces as a fruit salad, taking a raisin here while rejecting a pecan there. The test should be whether Aristide was chosen in a free and fair election. He was. Supporting him is therefore an American interest. It isn't an interest that justifies war, but it does...
Gunfire has become sufficiently common in and around classrooms, mostly in the inner city, that an astonishing number of schools have started to treat their own corridors as potential crime scenes. Some are tearing out lockers to deny hiding places for handguns or banning carryalls and bookbags for the same reason...
...Davis onstage at Montreux, Switzerland. Davis was too weak to play entire solos, so Roney would finish them for him. Davis died a few months later, and Roney's performance became legendary. Misterios, Davis- like in its jazz-pop blend, is dedicated to the legend. "He taught me to treat every note like a precious emotion," says Roney. Listening to Misterios, you know he learned his lessons well...