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...study clearly supports the idea of a seasonal injection or two, but if slow-release naltrexone works as well as it does, does this call the value of the daily doses into question? When you're dealing with patients who are struggling with as powerful a temptation as alcohol, is there any argument against a treatment that requires them to reaffirm their commitment just 12 times a year instead of 365 times? "No argument at all," says Rosenbloom. If you're battling alcohol addiction, that simple answer may be the best holiday gift...
...Klein talks about Bush's "intellectual laziness," which suggests Bush had the intellect, but was too lazy to use it. Why doesn't Klein call a spade a spade? Actually, the problem is that Bush didn't have the intellect in the first place; he is a stupid man, plain and simple. And America was stupid to elect him in the first place, and then stupid beyond belief to re-elect him in 2004. Without romanticizing Obama, it seems to me that he's intelligent; America has partly redeemed itself by electing him. Unfortunately for Obama, he has to sort...
...that involved the transplantation of about 500 sq cm of skin, arteries, veins, nerves, muscles and bony structure, all of which had to be attached with sufficient dexterity to restore the patient's ability to feel, blink, eat, smell, speak and - not incidentally - smile. This was not what doctors call solid-organ transplant; it was a multitissue transplant, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than, say, a heart transplant or a hand graft...
...disfigurement is being kept secret along with her name. Once she'd been chosen, the surgical team had to await a compatible donor - someone whose tissue matched the recipient's, but also, for esthetic and psychological reasons, who was of the same race, gender and approximate age. The call to alert Siemionow that a donor had finally been found came in the middle of the night earlier this month, and her team was hastily gathered. The operation began at 5:30 that afternoon. As the recipient was being prepped, the transplant tissue was harvested from the donor, an exhaustive procedure...
...predawn hours of Sunday morning, a ringing phone in the Red Cross base in this violence-torn Mexican city is a warning of impending tragedy. The first responders on call on this particular night had already seen plenty of action: a man with a bullet embedded in his skull; a beaten corpse dumped on a street corner; a blood-soaked drunk who tried to pull a policeman's gun from his holster. But the worst had been waiting until last. Someone was calling in from the middle of a firefight raging in a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of town...