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Mazlish watched as his wife programmed her insulin pump to deliver both dribbles of basal insulin throughout the day and a large bolus with meals.—
Carrie Arnold,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025 -
Unlike human pesticides, though, termite boluses were not lethal to the weed.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Oct. 2025
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But Juurlink found a case report from 1990 that documented a breast-feeding mother producing a milk sample whose concentration was fifteen per cent higher than Rani’s—and that was after the woman’s morphine dosage had been tapered by ninety per cent.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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With microdosing, patients begin at the lowest effective amount of the medication and increase the dosage more slowly.—
Zoe Weiner,
Flow Space,
23 Jan. 2026
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Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Jan. 2026
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Liberato was forced to stop and wrestle with inner demons that even a dose of magic mushrooms couldn’t tamp down.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
22 Jan. 2026
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These capsules are similar to gelcap pills and deliver enormous amounts of THC in a small package.—
Rowan Briggs,
The Mercury News,
10 Oct. 2024
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Avodart is taken by mouth as a gelcap at a daily 0.5-mg dose.—
Elizabeth Boskey,
Verywell Health,
5 June 2023
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Finally a trial of about a year, similar to a drug’s Phase 3 stage, is conducted to demonstrate safety and effectiveness at a larger scale.—
Ana Castelain,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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Sandweg also said the Border Patrol has no business operating in a city like Minneapolis because their training is geared more toward encountering drug cartels and migrants along the border.—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Pilule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilule. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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