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...method does have drawbacks. Progestin causes irregular menstrual bleeding in 75% of women who use it. Women may get their periods at odd intervals, such as 3 or 7 weeks apart, and some could miss one altogether. The periods themselves can also be longer, an average of 8 days of bleeding or spotting as opposed to the normal 5 days. These effects diminish after the first two years, according to the manufacturers. In addition, the cost, although less than that of oral contraceptives, will be considerable. Wyeth- Ayerst officials will not reveal the price until marketing begins in February...
...same advantages that recommend Norplant to many women also raise the specter of abuse. Some health experts fear that legislators and judges will try to use the method as a way of restricting the reproductive freedom of teenagers, drug users, convicted child abusers or even the mentally ill. Economist Isabel Sawhill at the Urban Institute, a Washington-based research organization, recently published a paper in which she suggested that all teenagers be encouraged to use Norplant at puberty. "The decision to have a child would become a conscious choice -- decoupled from the dictates of biology, hormones and peer pressure...
...until late March as long as he was not attacked. His acceleration of the schedule was almost certainly intended to pressure Bush to produce something more than an ultimatum when the President meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Washington. Numerous Congressmen last week urged the Administration to use this session and a subsequent meeting in Baghdad between Secretary of State James Baker and Saddam for genuine negotiations with Iraq. "Negotiations is not a bad word," said Senator Paul Simon. "Either you negotiate a diplomatic settlement or you have...
...could last up to two years. They will prescribe pills for a broad range of conditions, from hyperactivity to manic depression. At the end of the trial period, independent experts will evaluate the students' performance and make recommendations to Congress on whether the program should be expanded for general use. The initiative was proposed by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, whose administrative assistant, Patrick DeLeon, is an American Psychological Association board member. Ostensibly, the study aims to explore ways to deal with physician shortages in the armed services. But several state legislatures are watching the experiment to determine whether psychologists...
...prescribe. "Psychiatrists would have you believe that they go in and learn chemistry and biology and anatomy and from that they independently figure out what all the adverse reactions are going to be," says Welch. "I don't believe you'd find 5% of the medical community who use that scientific training." Welch argues that permitting psychologists to prescribe drugs would help make up for the serious shortages of qualified psychiatrists in the rural U.S. and many state hospitals...