Word: clinically
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...Taylor met her last husband at the Betty Ford Clinic. Now that Larry Fortensky is single again, could he be headed back to rehab? Police arrested him outside an illegally parked motor home for investigation of being under the influence of a controlled substance. "This just shows how victimized and vulnerable he is," says his lawyer, Raoul Felder, who adds that Fortensky was taking prescription medicine...
Since 1990, about 100 paralyzed patients have been given 4-AP in clinical trials, and about one-third of them have regained some function. Keith Hayes, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, who has been involved in the trials, says, "We have seen improvements in sensation and motor function, reduced spasticity and reduced pain, and improvement in bowel, bladder and sexual functions." MS researchers may come up with yet another useful therapy for spinal-cord injuries. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Moses Rodriguez is testing the use of antibodies as catalysts...
Johns Hopkins Hospital claimed first overall in the survey. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota was second...
Parental intervention can still save some of these barely visible blobs of protoplasm, and last week a few did get last-minute reprieves. But despite the best efforts of clinic officials, the majority of these "parents"--couples who had donated egg and sperm in an attempt at in-vitro fertilization (IVF)--cannot or will not be located. Without word from the parents within five years, British law requires that the embryos be destroyed. And so, after last-ditch appeals to the courts and Prime Minister John Major failed, the clinics began dumping the eggs and embryos like so much abandoned...
...destruction as a "prenatal massacre"; protesters held a vigil outside Westminster Cathedral before the event and memorial services afterward; and people across Europe offered to "adopt" the frozen cells to preserve them. Childless couples bitterly lamented that they would gladly have taken the embryos for themselves. And some clinic workers contemplated going to jail rather than carry out the law, though they yielded...