1.   A single inexpensive oral dose of antibiotics could easily and permanently cure the infection, but the women remain untreated.

2.   Half the participants took daily oral doses of hydroxyurea and the rest had a placebo, or dummy drug.

3.   Half the patients received daily oral doses of the bisphosphonate drug clodronate, which has not yet been approved for use in the United States.

4.   In the experiments, the researchers gave daily oral doses of modified pectin to rats after injecting prostate cancer cells into a tail vein.

5.   Oral doses of thyroid hormone permit normal development.

6.   Seven rhesus monkeys were given oral doses of the simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, a close biological cousin of HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus.

7.   The livestock are given oral doses of vitamin E, which ensures that the meat keeps a bright red color longer.

8.   The recommended change is two injected doses followed by two oral doses, on a similar timetable.

9.   Within three days of birth, her infant gets a single oral dose of the drug.

10.   Children should be given polio shots instead of the oral vaccine to avoid a tiny chance of a polio infection from the oral dose, the government says.