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...Alprostadil: This vasodilating drug can be self-administered as an injection (Caverject) in the penis, or inserted into the urethra as a suppository (MUSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Love Potions | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...scene, which one witness equated to a tad pole dangling from a meat hook, garnered looks of horror from friends. The normally staid Benny explained why he opted to have a steel ring pierced through the head of his beloved member and out of the end of his urethra as the first decoration on his otherwise unadorned, pasty white body. “Actually, I wanted a tiny yellow smiley face tattoo on the inside of my wrist,” Benny confesses. “But, no matter how small the tattoo, I realized there was still a chance...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

Lucy thrived in her new environment. With three generations of her family watching over her, she rapidly recovered from her pneumonia. While age created its own set of problems, it was still a shock when cancer of the urethra was diagnosed in November 1999. Lucy didn't want surgery, and her age put chemotherapy and radiation out of the question. "I didn't know how I would handle the cancer," Alice said. "I was afraid it would be too much for me." Still, the desire to have her mother remain at home was the overriding factor. Her daughter Renee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

That uncertainty could be changing. In the past few years, pharmaceutical companies have developed highly sensitive urine tests for chlamydia that work equally well for boys and girls. (The previous test required more invasive sampling of the cervix or urethra.) Such tests should permit more extensive screening campaigns. Already, a pilot program in the Pacific Northwest has achieved a dramatic decline, from 9% to 3%, in chlamydia rates among women in family-planning clinics. But the goal should be getting to zero, which means that both men and women need to be tested and treated. Otherwise, they'll just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen Girls Beware | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...sick and shorten their career. Yet they keep taking the stuff, relying on so-called drug gurus to dose them in undetectable ways, and on ever more elaborate strategies to beat drug tests. One of the most devious: using a catheter to pump someone else's urine into their urethra just before a test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Tour des Drugs | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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