Word: regimen
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...when the nation reverts to standard time (hint: "fall back"). But many folks have an even bigger problem. Their internal body rhythm remains so out of synch that for days they experience something akin to jet lag. If this sounds like you, you might try this novel, melatonin-based regimen...
...course, even with such straightforward guidelines, portion control is still critical. To get maximum benefit from any dietary regimen, you need to limit what you take in and make sure you don't consume more than your body can burn. Indeed, it's so hard to lose weight and keep it off that the A.H.A., also for the first time, has made obesity prevention one of its top priorities. Fortunately, there's an easy way to keep your caloric intake balanced with your metabolic output: just step on the bathroom scale and see if you're gaining weight. Provided...
...Success of the two-pill regimen, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, eliminates the need for an injection. The report stirs widespread public anticipation of the abortion pill...
Under normal circumstances, Amy would have had to undergo a surgical abortion. But she found a clinic that offered the abortion pill mifepristone on an experimental basis. She thought taking the drug would give her a sense of control. And the regimen seemed simple: first an ultrasound test to make sure she was still in the early weeks of pregnancy, then a dose of mifepristone, which arrests the pregnancy, followed by another drug two days later to expel the mass of embryonic tissue. She was surprised at the pain, however. "It was more than a period," she recalls...
CHEMO COMBO More than 55,000 Americans will die from colorectal cancer this year. But doctors have designed a new chemotherapy regimen that can slow metastatic colorectal cancer and buy patients a few more months of life. By adding the drug irinotecan to the standard treatment of fluorouracil and leucovorin, researchers increased patients' survival time from 13 to 15 months, afforded them seven months (up from four) of progression-free disease and nearly doubled the percentage of patients whose tumors shrank...