Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From San Francisco, a man who had lost his wife and job because of his cocaine habit is contemplating suicide. He is talked out of it and referred to a local drug clinic. A cocaine abuser in Beverly Hills who has been suffering from drug-induced convulsions wants to know if they can possibly be controlled by Dilantin, a drug used for epileptic seizures. Answer: don't try it. A tearful California mother reports that her son has been free-basing cocaine for three years and is about to lose his job as a hotel manager. What...
...Française, founded by former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "What is going on is an expression of corporatist, or special interest, discontent in French society." So far, the mood has translated into a bewildering checkerboard of largely middle-class protest. Hospital interns and senior clinic physicians struck nationwide for five weeks, protesting a government plan that would reduce their chances for promotion. University students are objecting to a sweeping plan, drawn up by Education Minister Alain Savary, that they say is threatening academic freedom by proposing to make universities more responsive to the needs...
Tonight researchers will carefully monitor and record every function of his body having to do with sleeping and breathing. He has been transferred from Harvard affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to the Sleep Disorders Clinic and Laboratory in nearby Harvard affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital...
...device, is a 30-year old woman who suspects that she has insomnia. She arrived at about 9 p.m. the usual hour for patients to enter the lab for overnight stays, and her vital signs will be recorded until 6 a.m. as well. She is an outpatient, in the clinic just for the night, and unlike the sleep apnea patient, she requires no supervision from the lab's two-man team...
Aside from the severity of his case, Stakes adds, tonight's patient is typical of apnea sufferers. He is in late middle age, moderately obese, with a short neck, and male. Most apnea victims are, and their wives bring them in to this clinic or others like it complaining that while their spouse has always snored, recently they have noticed that he seems to stop breathing...