Word: virgina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALEXANDRIA, Virgina: Often known as "the silent killer," diabetes may soon have one fewer place to hide. In an effort to identify the estimated 8 million Americans who have the disease but don't know it, the American Diabetes Association has called for all adults 45 and older to be tested for adult-onset diabetes every three years. The Association also dramatically lowered the blood glucose threshold that alerts doctors to the disease. Previously, "normal" glucose levels were at least 140 milligrams per decileter of blood plasma. New research shows that repeated blood sugar levels...
...effective means of contraception for 98.6 percent of the couples involved, with only four pregnancies reported. "It would show that testosterone, like estrogen in a female, can be an additional method of reproduction control," said Richard Sherins, the director of andrology at the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virgina. "Testosterone may be a new way of looking at birth control," says TIME's Alice Park. "If it is true, it would be an exciting flipside as contraception is usually focused on the woman." But, she adds, two and one half years is not enough time to understand how hormone...
...effective means of contraception for 98.6 percent of the couples involved, with only four pregnancies reported. "It would show that testosterone, like estrogen in a female, can be an additional method of reproduction control," said Richard Sherins, the director of andrology at the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virgina. "Testosterone may be a new way of looking at birth control," says TIME's Alice Park. "If it is true, it would be an exciting flipside as contraception is usually focused on the woman." But, she adds, two and one half years is not enough time to understand how hormone...
...effective means of contraception for 98.6 percent of the couples involved, with only four pregnancies reported. "It would show that testosterone, like estrogen in a female, can be an additional method of reproduction control," said Richard Sherins, the director of andrology at the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virgina. "Testosterone may be a new way of looking at birth control," says TIME's Alice Park. "If it is true, it would be an exciting flipside as contraception is usually focused on the woman." But, she adds, two and one half years is not enough time to understand how hormone...
...effective means of contraception for 98.6 percent of the couples involved, with only four pregnancies reported. "It would show that testosterone, like estrogen in a female, can be an additional method of reproduction control," said Richard Sherins, the director of andrology at the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virgina. "Testosterone may be a new way of looking at birth control," says TIME's Alice Park. "If it is true, it would be an exciting flipside as contraception is usually focused on the woman." But, she adds, two and one half years is not enough time to understand how hormone...