Pills were given sequentially until a pill failed to traverse the esophagus in less than 20 s.
A cat birth-control pill failed because you couldn't control who ate it — set out a dish of spiked cat chow and you might affect the local raccoon population.
Two said that their oral contraceptive pill failed.
We all know that contraception never fails; the pills work even if you have a nasty gastric flu, and increasing your body's intake of hormones is never problematic.
He told her to return if the pills failed.
Sure enough, there had been another failed attempt -- pills this time -- and Lucy had managed to have my mother committed to Mercywood again.
One doesn't realize what lousy medicine this is until one meets a doctor who provides other therapies and education that work when the pills failed.
Its conclusion shocked doctors: four years of treatment with estrogen and progestin pills failed to lower the risk of heart attacks in women who already had heart disease.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the Johnson & Johnson unit involved in several product recalls, had hired outside contractors to buy back vials of Motrin in early 2009 because the pills failed to dissolve properly, a problem that could diminish the product's effectiveness.
Robert Hazlett, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, said the deal might be good for Lilly in the long run but that "our expectations for this are slow to modest growth initially" because the drug must be injected and would be used only if pills failed.
