If there were a pill with such poor efficacy, it might be considered malpractice to prescribe it.
“I could have taken the pill, but I wanted to do the one that women were most afraid of,” she told Cosmo.
A pill that can give women control over their bodies and sexual choice is coming under criticism for encouraging risky behavior.
So far, research shows that none of these fears have been born out with The pill or with Truvada.
Florida, which began a pill mill crackdown in 2010, saw a 50 percent decrease in overdose deaths from oxycodone in 2012.
He wished to have the time to make Dubois swallow this pill.
There was no answer, and she asked again, "Bob, did you 'pill your berries?"
You've always had speed and curves, but now you seem able to get the pill over.
Some of that power ought to emanate from him with every pill and drug which he prescribes.
We figured the percentage on the basis of the pill Frank swiped.
"small ball or round mass of medicine," c.1400, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German pille and Middle French pile, all from Latin pilula "pill," literally "little ball," diminutive of pila "a ball, playing ball," said to be related to pilus "hair" if the original notion was "hairball." Figurative sense "something disagreeable that must be swallowed" is from 1540s; slang meaning "boring person" is recorded from 1871. The pill "contraceptive pill" is from 1957.
1736, "to dose on pills," from pill (n.). From 1882 as "to form into pills." Related: Pilled; pilling.
pill (pĭl)
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A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.
An oral contraceptive.
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Any oral contraceptive for women: now that the joint and the pill are with us
