Word: doctored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hara was born in Pottsville, Pa., five years after the century began, the son of a prosperous doctor. His childhood was comfortable. He seemed destined for Yale and a happily-ever-after life, but just before he was to go to New Haven his father died and there was no money for college. O'Hara went on to a spectacularly varied assortment of jobs-freight clerk, steel-mill worker, soda jerk, gas-meter reader and deckhand-before turning to writing...
...doctor is still supposed to prescribe it for only one condition, the manic phase of manic-depressive psychosis. Some authorities are concerned that physicians may prescribe the drug too freely, for it may be dangerous. Double the usual prescribed dose can make a person miserably ill, and more might cause coma and death. Yet by this criterion lithium carbonate is no more dangerous than digitalis or insulin. Despite their poor profit prospects, three U.S. drug manufacturers are now marketing the compound as a public service. No one knows how many U.S. mental patients qualify for it: the figure most often...
There is universal agreement that oral contraceptives are such potent drugs that they should be taken only under a doctor's supervision - and that some women should not take them at all (TIME, Jan. 26; March 9). How can women be alerted to these admitted facts without being scared off the Pill entirely...
...promptly attacked by the American Medical Association, which charged it with interfering in doctor-patient relationships, and by the pharmaceutical companies, which saw their sales slipping. White House pressure made the FDA back down...
...Cambridge Red Cross is supervising Harvard's annual Spring blood drive, which will last through Friday, April 10. Twelve nurses, a doctor, and dozens of volunteers were on hand to make the blood-giving procedure as smooth-flowing as possible...