Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corporation activities and practices, it would be difficult to develop consistent standards to determine when a company's behavior was sufficiently objectionable to merit this treatment. Such an effort would also raise extremely difficult and divisive questions. If an university health service purchases abortion services from a neighboring clinic, some people may claim that it is subsidizing murder while others will insist that the practice is legitimate, and perhaps even obligatory...
...heart-wrecking habits. Says Midwest Correspondent Patricia Delaney: "I felt dull chest pains when cardiologists vividly described the symptoms of a heart attack, and afterward I sadly declined wine and butter at lunch. I even got an electrocardiogram, and I began to exercise more." After visiting a hypertension clinic in Manhattan and a diagnostic center on Long Island, Correspondent Mary Cronin persuaded a reluctant relative to undergo a battery of tests. Says Cronin: "She got a clean bill of health and told me to be my own guinea pig next time." Jacqueline Schmeal interviewed surgeons at the University of Texas...
...strides in basic knowledge. "In the next ten years," he says, "we will understand why artery walls degenerate and why hypertension happens, and develop the means for preventing both." Heredity's complex role in cardiovascular illness will be better understood as well. Says Robert Brandenberg of the Mayo Clinic: "We're probably just on the edge of a whole new series of breakthroughs...
...ambulance pulled up to the emergency entrance, an attendant jumped out and shouted to stunned doctors and nurses: "It's the Pope! It's the Pope!" John Paul was wheeled swiftly to the intensive care unit, given a blood transfusion and taken to the ninth-floor surgical clinic. As he was being moved into surgery, the Pope, fully conscious, posed to a male nurse the question that recurs with such dreadful frequency amid the mindless violence that grips the world: "Perchè l'hanno fatto [Why did they do it]?" John Paul was not hinting that...
Laetrile advocates, who have forced legalization of its use in 23 states, charge that the drug used in the tests was not pure Laetrile. The N.C.I, says the material is structurally identical to that found in Mexico's Laetrile clinics. Says Robert Bradford of the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, a Laetrile lobbying group: "The whole thing, as far as we are concerned, is a put-up deal to discredit Laetrile." Replies Dr. Charles Moertel of the Mayo Clinic: "We like to be optimistic about the good sense of the public ... But we are not going...