Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doctors and educators are only beginning to design the programs needed to help the crack kids. One notable pilot project is Zuckerman's Women and Infants Clinic at Boston City Hospital, which uses what Zuckerman calls the "one-stop shopping" technique. While pediatricians and child-development experts work with babies, addicted mothers get help in kicking their habits and learn how to care for their children. The first eight babies in the program, tested at age 1, all fell within the normal range on the Bayley scale of infant development; this means they can play pat-a-cake, walk unassisted...
...officials point to another problem with the get-tough approach. Throwing the book at female addicts for everything from delivering drugs to a minor to child abuse makes it even less likely that they will actively seek medical care when they are pregnant. And scaring them away from the clinic means even more damaged babies...
...addicted mothers offer every kind of assistance, beginning with detoxification but extending to pediatric services for the child, psychological and job counseling for the mother, and extensive parenting classes. But all this is backed up with a none-too-subtle threat of legal intervention. The Women and Infants Clinic program at Boston City Hospital, for instance, takes this approach to helping addicted mothers. Women in the program must submit to random urine tests each week, and they are told that two unexplained absences in a row will trigger an immediate investigation for child neglect...
Many doctors think of cholera as a kind of Lazarus syndrome. Victims are brought to a clinic or hospital with no apparent blood pressure or pulse, taking only shallow breaths. "But if there is any life left in them at all, we can bring them back," says Dr. David Sack, associate professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Sadly, thousands of people in Latin America will not be revived in time and will die of the disease, which robs the body of fluids through severe diarrhea and vomiting. Last week the first epidemic of cholera...
...while about 100 Crimson faithful basked in the glorious afternoon sun at Ohiri field, Leary and her troops displayed an almost frightening intensity from start to finish, putting on a veritable lacrosse clinic en route to a 14-1 drubbing of Dartmouth...