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- <text id=93TT0931>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: Health and Science:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- HEALTH & SCIENCE, Page 24
- Et Cetera
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> STICKER SHOCK
- </p>
- <p> It may be an old drug, but its new use fetches a new--and
- much higher--price. Previously a treatment for cancer,
- Depo-Provera was approved in the U.S. in October as a
- contraceptive. But its maker, Upjohn, is now charging doctors
- and clinics around $30 for a three-month shot--more than
- double its earlier price--which means women will pay about
- $50. Upjohn maintains it is recouping drug-development costs,
- but doctors argue that research ended long ago and that many
- countries have used Depo-Provera as a birth-control agent for
- years.
- </p>
- <p> REACH OUT AND...
- </p>
- <p> "I never found the companion that was so companionable as
- solitude," wrote Henry David Thoreau. Alas, solitude is getting
- harder to come by: the Federal Communications Commission has
- allocated a block of radio frequencies for new satellite paging
- services. Employing "little low-earth-orbit satellites," such
- services will allow people to send and receive messages
- worldwide. Users communicate through calculator-like devices
- costing around $350. Services could be available by the end of
- 1994.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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