Sentences with phrase «known as pill»

This public project will spur more growth in the neighborhood known as Pill Hill.
The Pill: The combination birth control pill, commonly known as the Pill, is an oral contraceptive that contains estrogen and progesterone.

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The spike in the use of sleeping pills has caused some alarm, with critics warning that these pills — sometimes known as benzos — actually cut down on critical REM sleep and slow - wave sleep during which we consolidate information, and pose a risk of dependence.
HVMN sells nootropics, otherwise known as «smart pills,» a growing favorite among Silicon Valley's elite, who are looking for ways to function at super-human levels.
Friends of the groom had given him the pills, known to heighten sexual sensitivity, as a joke, but his new wife — then a Yale Law student — apparently insisted that he get rid of them.
Because the Deep Web is best known as the home of Silk Road, a notorious online service similar to eBay — if that website trafficked in handguns, ecstasy pills and thugs, rather than vintage timepieces and Alf dolls.
The publisher of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other papers said Monday the plan, commonly known as a «poison pill,» would kick in if a group buys more than 20 percent of Tribune Publishing's shares or begins a tender offer to seek a 20 percent stake from existing shareholders.
As many Catholic woman I know can attest to, who have seen the unique expression that passes across their doctors face» a mingling of disbelief, mirth, and disapprobation» when told, «No really, I am quite sure, I do not need to be on the pill,» there is a great need for genuinely Catholic women's health care.
The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.
The final doc sent me back to my GP, who wrote a prescription for oral birth control — «the pill», as I knew it then.
«This emergency contraception method is different from another «morning after» pill used widely in Europe — known as RU486 or mifepristone.
A suicide pill (also known as a cyanide pill, kill - pill, lethal pill, Death - pill, or L - pill) is a pill, capsule, ampoule or tablet containing a fatally poisonous substance that a person ingests deliberately in order to quickly cause his / her own life to end.
Men don't know what it means to be raped and to face the prospect of pregnancy as a result, a situation in which the morning after pill can prevent a pregnancy without causing an abortion.
If the various polls and surveys on the subject are even partially correct, there are millions of men and women who would unhesitatingly describe themselves as pro — life who also regularly use the contraceptive pill, which is known to act, at least some of the time, as an abortifacient.
Pumpkin seeds are high in protein which is super important to be aware of as a vegan as well as being rich in various B - complex vitamins, another important thing which is usually added through pills but we all know food is better.
Then he ate about a half - dozen pills of who - knows - what with your - guess - is - as - good - as - mine side effects to go with them.
As we know, when the injuries start pilling up (yes they will because the new American fitness coach is not a miracle worker... He still has to deal with year and year of bad habits and Tony Colbert incompetence) we will again left in limbo and Wenger will talk about January or Giroud coming back...!!
Emergency birth control pills are also known as Plan B, morning after pills and emergency contraception, which you take these after having unwanted or unprotected sex to help prevent pregnancy.
If you're someone who would rather swallow as few pills as possible, you'll be glad to know that you only have to take one of these per day.
If you know far enough in advance, say 6 or 7 months, treatment with a combination of estrogen and progesterone (as in the birth control pill, but without a break) plus domperidone will simulate pregnancy somewhat and may allow you to produce more milk.
Mommy Know's Best Goat's Rue is used as supplement to increase milk supply by moms and for babies who are sensitive to blessed thistle, Fenugreek seed and other ingredients in lactating pills.
Homeopathic pain pills may also be useful: Hylans makes a teething remedy that's known as safe and effective.
I just like the idea that it is something mechanical and not something hormonal — I took the pill for ten years and experienced side - effects such as major crankiness (we all know this sounds like something small but its not), weight gain, and reduced, shall we say, enthusiasm.
Also known as the «morning after pill», or Plan B, these pills have concentrated doses of hormones, which can have negative side effects, including vomiting.
The pills have been made available under the new school program known as CATCH — Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health — which is aimed at stemming teen pregnancy.
Back then, as a lowly lab tech at a chemical company, Arnold could never get hold of the precursor, a prohibitively expensive synthetic progestogen known as levonorgestrel, the active ingredient in the morning - after pill.
Cohen made the connection: The patients were all taking weight loss pills known as rainbow diet pills, imported in bulk from Brazil.
Around 9 million adults in the United States take «probiotic» supplements — pills packed with microorganisms such as Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis, bacteria that are known to promote gut health.
In a paper published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, investigators at Dana - Farber and research centers around the world found that the drug combination — given as a single pill known as TAS - 102 — not only extended patients» overall survival, but also delayed the advance of the disease and did so with very few side effects.
Apart from patient testimonials and a few preliminary studies in tumor cell lines and in mice, critics say, there is no evidence of the safety or efficacy of the compound, popularly known as the «cancer pill» or «fosfo.»
Study participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups for six months: (1) oral estradiol and progesterone at a dose similar to that in many birth control pills (16 participants); (2) transdermal estradiol, better known as the estrogen patch, at a physiological replacement dose with cyclic progesterone (13 athletes); or (3) no estrogen (19 subjects).
Bazedoxifene is a pill that, like tamoxifen, belongs to a class of drugs known as specific estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs).
THE mysterious illness known as Gulf War syndrome may have been caused by the combined effect of a pill given to protect against nerve gas and an insect repellent, according to preliminary results from American research.
A pill bug is commonly known as a «roly - poly» for its defensive behavior of rolling up into an armored ball.
The study adds to previous research by lead investigator Kalyani Sonawane, Ph.D., demonstrating that the drug treatment, which combines two drugs in a single pill, known as fixed - dose combination, has several advantages over other approaches for adjusting blood pressure medication.
Walker and the authors note that a well - tested «next - generation probiotic» consisting of known beneficial microbes delivered as a pill or other therapy could take the place of fresh feces, and this mouse system provides a way to identify the most effective bacteria, the diseases those bacteria can treat, and whether a particular diet is necessary.
They determined that overweight and obese women were more likely than normal weight women to choose forms of birth control known as long - acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), and less likely to use methods like the pill, the shot, the patch and the ring.
«The ultimate goal of our program is to develop pills that could treat and even prevent Alzheimer's disease and related disorders known as tauopathies.»
As someone who has worked for a highly regarded supplement company and has witnessed the behind - the - scenes of the industry, I know what's really in those little pills we love to pop.
And remember, if you are using the Pill as a means to treat period pain, you should know that it isn't actually treating it at all - it's just masking the problem.
Unfortunately being on the pill long term means, for many women, this can be difficult because we've never had to focus or know what's going on — nor could we as the pill masks many of these signs.
In January 2005, with a pair of trained therapists at her side, Sakuda took a pill of psilocybin — a hallucinogen better known as the active ingredient in «magic mushrooms.»
Acitretin What it is: Acitretin is a retinoid, a type of synthetic vitamin A. Usually known by its brand name, Soriatane, acitretin is taken as a once - a-day pill and is the only oral systemic not available as a generic.
But in the last five years or so, researchers have shown that dispensing pills that people know are placebos can still alleviate symptoms of IBS (as they did for Linda) and depression, as long as the researchers explain that dummy pills have worked for patients in the past.
Morning - after pills that contain levonorgestrel are the only form of emergency contraception approved for over-the-counter use, and as a result, they're the most well known.
Usually cost more than their older benzodiazepine counterparts — up to $ 4 a pill — because most are not available as generics (exception: zolpidem, better known by its brand name, Ambien)
Known as chemotherapy (or, colloquially, chemo), this treatment can be given in a number of ways, including intravenously, topically, or orally, in the form of pills or liquids.
Certainly birth control pills also have known side effects, such as blood clots, heart attack, and stroke.
If you find yourself needing emergency contraception — also known as the morning - after pill — you should be able to get it over the counter regardless of your age, thanks to a 2013 ruling by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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