Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite slow progress toward finding a cause or cure for muscular dystrophy, doctors believe that victims can be helped by muscle training, special gadgets to help them perform everyday tasks, and psychological counseling. To provide these, the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America opened a big clinic in downtown Los Angeles, hope to open a score like it across...
...stereotype is accurate, it is obvious that many students do wear glasses. It seems surprising, then, that the Hygiene Department has no facilities for eye care. When students catch colds, they drop in for a shot of penicillin at the Hygiene Building. When they get toothaches, they visit the clinic's complete dental facilities. But when they suffer eyestrain, they face the unhappy alternative of ruining their eyes or riding in to Boston on the MTA to see a specialist. As a result, many students delay a checkup until their original eye strain is worse...
...expensive for the present, the Department should at least have an optometrist visit Harvard once a week and supply him with the less costly equipment needed to fit glasses. When more uncommon disorders occur, students could go to Boston as they do now. Such a temporary eye clinic, financed through the regular Medical Fee, could offer effective method of eye care until the new clinic appears...
...Rome University's Orthopedic Clinic, 1,133 polio experts from 49 nations gathered last week, but the vital question -how good is the Salk vaccine? -was not even on the agenda. Although masses of statistics and case reports on the vaccine trials (TIME, March 29) are piling up, no conclusive answer can be culled from them until next year. Meanwhile. Dr. Jonas E. Salk reported to his colleagues in Rome, he has already gathered new data that will dictate changes in any future attack on polio with a vaccine similar...
...true in such fields as fund-raising campaigns. Last winter the council asked if TIME would put up an award for the best "Direct-Mail Campaign of the Year." At the council's convention in Gulfport, Miss. this summer, at which we sponsored a three-day direct-mail clinic, the award was made for the first time. The winner: Columbia University...