Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before you arrive at the metaphysical questions, you face the medical ones. Chukwu, who miscarried triplets earlier in 1998, was treated this time with injectable fertility drugs called gonadotropins at a Houston clinic. Such drugs stimulate the follicles to mature in preparation to release eggs. The woman is monitored, and if a large number of follicles mature, most doctors advise her to cancel the cycle in order to avoid multiple births. Canceling the cycle is simple; either by withholding a second drug that stimulates the follicles to release eggs or, if the eggs are released anyway, by avoiding sexual relations...
...Wanted for questioning about bombings at the Atlanta Olympics and at a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic...
...week beforehand. Even then, doctors don't always recognize the disorder. "I just had a patient in my office who was known to have a 100% iron-saturation level for years," but his physicians didn't do anything about it, says Dr. Geoffrey Block, director of the Hemochromatosis Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "There's still a perception that if the iron levels aren't low, you don't need to worry...
General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, former dictator of Chile, is arrested in a London clinic on a human-rights warrant. For Americans, a conundrum. Instinctively we think this must be right. If in America you were responsible directly or indirectly for 3,000 deaths, you'd be on death row. But Americans are not arbitrary. All kinds of thugs, both former and current rulers, are running around free. So why Pinochet...
Noting their opposing backgrounds, Marilyn I. Cohen, director of a clinic providing abortions, and Karen Swallow Prior, a high school principal and longtime sidewalk counselor with Operation Rescue, said that if they could find areas of agreement on this issue then other people should be able to as well...