Sentences with phrase «of as a pill»

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But what if instead of having to take a pill, all they had to do was brush their teeth as they would any other day?

As an entrepreneur who is trying to pay the bills, the thought of giving something away for free is a hard pill to swallow.

This is part of a broader strategy called «pill plus,» and a bet that an app will prompt people to take their meds and refill their prescriptions as directed.

if you are late starting your active pills, or have missed pills, she recommends using a secondary form of contraception such as condoms.

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.

A veteran Playboy columnist predicted that the controversial medication would be «as monumental as the birth - control pill,» and the publisher of Penthouse hailed it as a macho wonder drug that would «free the American male libido» from the feminists who sought to «emasculate» them.

The technology is being applied in numerous ways, such as developing a vaccination that includes the follow - up dose; taste - masking oral pills to neutralize flavor; and even working with antimicrobials for the U.S. Department of Defense to improve ready - to - eat meals for the Army.

The DEA viewed distributors — the nation's pharmaceutical fire hose — as key to its efforts to stop criminal misuse of pain pills.

The numbers are hard to fathom: Between 2007 and 2012, as the nation's opioid epidemic spiraled out of control, wholesalers collectively shipped 780 million pain pills to West Virginia — or 433 doses for every man, woman, and child there.

Recent insights into learning - oriented brain cells called mirror neurons even hold out the possibility that someday we will have pills that will impart particular types of skills, such as computer programming or business decision making.

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.

He grew up with a mother who has been described as an abusive alcoholic and a pill user — plus a series of stepfathers and father figures.

«Most people seem to think of the potassium iodide, or KI, pills as some type of anti-radiation drug.

In July, the DEA released a report warning of counterfeit fentanyl pills disguised as common prescription drugs like Norco (hydrocodone), Percocet (oxycodone), and Xanax (alprazolam).

Shortly after Trump posted the statement, which received about 700,000 interactions, store managers across the country noticed a spike in sales of potassium iodide (or KI) pills, which are often advertised as able to block radiation from nuclear fallout.

There are the usual suspects, like pricey pills and supplements, as well as the peculiar, such as infusions of blood from young mice or standing - room chambers pumped with sub-zero temperatures.

«Ultimately, the DEA and federal prosecutors would contend that the company ignored its responsibility to report suspicious orders as 500 million of its pills ended up in Florida between 2008 and 2012 — 66 percent of all oxycodone sold in the state.

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.

Fighters from Islamic State are using forced birth control on their sex slaves to avoid pregnancies that might halt the cycle of sexual abuse.The women and girls, some as young as 16, have described being force - fed pills.

Whitehead stepped down as CEO of Sprout Pharmaceuticals last December, as Valeant continued to bungle the libido - ramping pill's go - to - market strategy.

It just bought out Novartis» stake in their joint venture in the consumer healthcare industry, meaning as of 2019, GlaxoSmithKline will have full operational control and have a right to all the profits that come from Sensodyne toothpaste, Panadol headache pills, and Voltaren gels that soothe muscle pain.

VICTORIA — Today, New Democrat public safety spokesperson, Mike Farnworth, tabled provincial legislation to restrict the use of pill presses and other equipment as part of the province's response to the overdose crisis.

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.

Scandals can pertain to large - scale corporate conduct involving the cooperation of many people (such as the Volkswagen emissions - falsification scandal), to an individual corporate decision (as when Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one of its drugs from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill), or to illicit behaviour by an individual (such as a corporation's CEO).

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.

Another problem with their argument not to provide the morning after pill is their characterization of it as an abortion.

Unlike the above, The Simpsons» Rev Timothy Lovejoy perpetuates the stereotype of the fire - and - brimstone Pharisee, referring to the Bible as a «2,000 - page sleeping pill».

Of the products and procedures at issue in the mandate debate, at least some do have legitimate therapeutic purposes (e.g., the anovulent pill is sometimes used as a kind of hormone therapyOf the products and procedures at issue in the mandate debate, at least some do have legitimate therapeutic purposes (e.g., the anovulent pill is sometimes used as a kind of hormone therapyof hormone therapy).

On that basis, my intention is not to discuss the rights or wrongs of abortion, but to examine the research evidence on issues such as secret abortions for teenagers, schools offering the morning - after pill, etc..

I don't think of them as «a difficult pill to swallow.»

Boots described emails and comments on social media as a «torrent of personal abuse» against their employees because of its original stance of refusing to lower the price of the morning - after pill.

For this reason, when the morning - after pill was introduced, it was hailed as a medical advance that would virtually end the problem of unwanted pregnancies.

We now have a situation where a Catholic hospital will be seen as condoning referrals for abortion and approving the full range of family planning services including abortifacients such as the morning - after pill.

Not the RCC's biggest fan, but to their credit, studies (albeit limited studies) have given Natural Family Planning (a RCC - approved method of contraceptive) is about 99 % effective - just as good as the Pill or a condom, and is far less expensive.

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.

Under Obamacare, the health insurance plans for most employers must offer at no cost or copayment 18 kinds of FDA - approved contraception from pills, to intrauterine devices (IUDs), to emergency contraception, such as ella or Plan B.

Abortion pills are fine with me but I don't automatically equate my employer with the «provider of all my medications» as some of you apparently do.

As of today, the Green family, the evangelical Christian owners of Hobby Lobby Creative Centers and Mardel Christian Bookstores, potentially owes the federal government $ 21.3 million in fines for defying the HHS mandate that requires all companies to provide insurance coverage for all FDA - approved prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, surgical sterilizations and abortion - inducing drugs, including «the morning after pill» and «the week after pill.»

Dr. Etienne - Emile Beaulieu, the French scientist who developed the RU - 486 abortifacient pill, has declared, «My intent is to eliminate the word «abortion» because that word is as traumatic as the fact itself of abortion.»

Said absolution will not erase the significant sin of stupidity as a great percentage of abortions are the result of not taking the Pill daily as spelled out in large letters on the package and / or not using a condom.

Yes those extremists try to paint the US as the Great Satan who's on a holy war against Islam, but that's not a pill swallowed by the majority of the muslim world.

The pill, which is marketed as a preventer of stomach ulcers, is offered with another drug - mifepristone - by the NHS in terminations.

But when these ideas are presented together as a whole, the reader starts to see a larger account of what just might ail us beneath the surface of the problems of the pill and the sexual revolution — as substantial as those problems and their consequences are.

Today's Christian finds it a bitter pill to swallow to be told that he must learn a lesson from the Communist and his secular hope for society, but long ago a prophet of Israel ventured to speak of the arch-enemy, Assyria, as an instrument in the hand of God, and another dared to name a foreign emperor as the very Messiah sent by YHWH.

The increased competition for mates, coinciding with the arrival of the birth control pill, helps to explain a number of things, such as the collapse of sexual taboos as young women began to offer free samples and to pursue men previously considered off limits (such as other women's husbands).

Reliance on a pill spares us from the messy business of having to think about and make sense of our experience, but the conviction is spreading as though the pill were the Good News itself.

The company, of course, is saying the government's requirement to provide «morning - after pills» as part of its health care coverage violates its religious beliefs and is suing to overturn the mandate...

And where is his sense of indignation that women who use the Pill do not use it properly resulting in an failure rate of 8.7 % as per the Gu - ttmacher Inst - itute statistics.

Everyone needs to be taught the right use of other drugs such as digestion aids, cathartics, reducing pills, stimulants, pain relievers, and tranquilizers.

But to act with the purpose of compensating for immorality is always wrong, as when we set up secondary school clinics to dispense pills and condoms to teenagers.