Word: allowed
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...attend her winter formal, a wedding and a few other special events, she tricked her body into skipping its monthly menstrual cycle several times in the past year. How? Instead of taking the last seven pills in her contraceptive case, which contain the placebos, or dummy pills, that allow her uterine lining to slough off each month, she immediately started her next month's batch of active medication. Result: instead of the usual 13 periods a year, she had nine...
Managing pain better would allow patients more comfortable deaths, but it can't guarantee easier ones. "When it comes to dying, pain comes in many flavors," says Robert Wrenn, who recently retired after 24 years of teaching about the psychology of dying at the University of Arizona. "Spiritual pain, social pain, even the unfinished-business pain that asks, 'Why am I here?'" Only the creepy would say dying should be cause to rejoice, and only the idealistic would say the health-care system could change our attitudes about it. But Byock, author of Dying Well, notes that dying's place...
...PLAN Bush would allow the elderly to stay in traditional fee-for-service Medicare or provide them with a fixed sum of money to pay for private insurance plans, some of which will offer a prescription-drug benefit. How much recipients pay and what benefits they receive depends on the plan they choose...
...PLAN Gore would strengthen the current Medicare program, putting aside $435 billion to keep it solvent--most of it in a "lockbox" outside the federal budget. And he would expand the program by adding a universal Rx drug benefit for all seniors. He also would allow people from ages 55 to 65 to buy into Medicare with the help of a tax credit...
...scheduled for October 11 in Winston-Salem, N.C., is Bush's best bet. Seated around a table, and moderated loosely by PBS newsman Jim Lehrer, the candidates won't so much debate as discuss. Bush's folksy demeanor should play well against Gore's stiffness, and the format will allow Bush to guide the conversation toward his comfort zone...