Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet a burden she considers to be undue. Among those that have passed O'Connor's standard: requiring abortions to be performed in hospitals, which makes them more costly and time consuming; imposing waiting periods that force women who may live far away from a clinic to make return trips; mandatory testing to determine viability...
...Boosting academic performance through better health and fitness. Schools should ensure access to health-care and counseling programs, preferably through a "health coordinator" or on-site clinic. Specifically, the report calls on middle schools to provide family-planning information to young adolescents...
Steps are being taken to fill medicine's information void. In a new field of study called patient-outcomes research, hospitals, clinics, health-maintenance organizations and other medical groups are collecting data on how well various treatments work. Armed with such knowledge, doctors should be able to get better results. Dr. Paul Ellwood, chairman of the InterStudy health-policy center near Minneapolis, predicts that within a year at least 100 patient- outcomes projects will be under way, with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied...
Some colleagues say Vorenberg's commitment to academic diversity is most clearly seen in his support for the clinical studies program, which supplements classroom work with hands-on advocacy experience. Having started its clinical studies program in the early 1970s, Harvard is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field. The program has evolved and, under Vorenberg, grown over the years; currently it includes such projects as a legal aid clinic to help AIDS patients...
Behind the street theater, though, a profound seriousness pervaded Tiananmen, born of the knowledge that people were prepared to die for democracy. Construction workers and medical volunteers erected a makeshift clinic, using scaffolding and canvas, as doctors and nurses ministered to the hunger strikers, some of whom had sworn off water as well as food and were wilting rapidly in the warm weather. The strikers were given glucose solutions, intravenously or orally. When the weather turned foul on Wednesday night, they were moved inside buses that had been brought to Tiananmen Square by the Chinese Red Cross...