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...myriad of health resources offered by the College that you have never been told are available, send them off to the panel discussion at University Health Services (UHS). Unlike the welcomes you normally receive when you stagger into UHS (completely debilitated from the mono that was misdiagnosed as a bladder infection the month before), your parents will be warmly greeted by a room full of not nurse practitioners, not inattentive receptionists, but--gasp--doctors. (Yes, there are doctors at UHS.) Once they've settled in, your parents can learn about UHS's "innovative approaches" to healthcare--presumably these...
...weeks ago, Janet Pincus' father died. She had looked after him for 15 years, ever since her mother passed away. Pincus, now 54, had helped him through heart attacks, a pituitary tumor and gall-bladder surgery. Two days before he died, he drifted into consciousness long enough to open his arms to his daughter, rock her in them and make one request. "Just stay with me," he said. That was their last conversation. Since his death, Pincus has tried to keep occupied. In the quiet hours, after a day spent teaching kindergarten and before her husband gets home, she sinks...
...British gangster who in the 1950s and '60s ruled east London with his identical twin Ronnie as modern-day Robin Hoods, giving money to the poor and hobnobbing with West End socialites; a month after he was released from prison, where he spent 32 years for murder; of bladder cancer; in Norwich, England...
...what may be a breakthrough, researchers used early drug intervention to delay the onset of the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis. Doctors administered either a placebo or interferon beta-1a (Avonex) to 383 patients who had suffered one episode of symptoms--such as double or cloudy vision or problems with bladder control or balance--that often precede MS. Forty percent of the placebo group but less than 24% of the Avonex group developed MS over the course of the three-year study...
...Gall bladder and gallstone surgeries b) Receiving $12.6 million in federal campaign money c) No one realized he had been gone d) All of the above...