Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Experts recommend that managers call in their companies' employee-assistance programs to help in such cases, but aid for the afflicted is scarce. In addition to traditional offline therapy, Young offers a virtual clinic with chat rooms and e-mail counseling on her website--an approach that University of Cincinnati psychiatrist Dr. Toby Goldsmith likens to "taking an alcoholic to an A.A. meeting in a bar." Goldsmith reports that some of the participants in her group's study are having success curbing their computer compulsion after taking mood stabilizers, sometimes combined with antidepressants...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; Nature Medicine; Mayo Clinic; New Jersey Poison Control Center...
...scarce medical resources--sounds like the essence of fairness. Yet the new organ-allocation system has ignited one of the most bitter and divisive controversies to hit U.S. medicine in decades. Hospital officials are charging one another with dishonesty and greed. Old friends have become enemies. Says Mayo Clinic health-policy analyst Roger Evans: "It's shocking. There is so much personal animosity, it's almost hatred, and it will only deteriorate over time...
While none of these treatments cure the disease, many slow its relentless progress, usually with fewer side effects than existing drugs have. That doesn't mean problems won't eventually show up in long-term users. "There is always a concern," says Michael Schiff of the Denver Arthritis Clinic, "that when you interfere with the immune system, you could get serious infections or malignancies...
...until now, anyway. Geneticist Edward Fugger and his colleagues at Genetics & IVF Institute, a fertility center in Fairfax, Va., surprised the obstetrical world last week with a report in the journal Human Reproduction asserting that the clinic can offer couples an 85% chance of ensuring they will have a girl. "I'm impressed," says Dr. Alan DeCherney, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and editor of the journal Fertility and Sterility. "It really seems to work...