Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate approved, 69 to 30, a bill that makes it a federal crime to attack or blockade abortion clinics. The vote came in the wake of a Houston jury award of more than $1 million in punitive damages to a Planned Parenthood clinic that claimed its business had been disrupted by Operation Rescue and Rescue America. The organizations are appealing the decision...
Each time Lisa Jones arrived at an East Baltimore, Maryland, health clinic for a pregnancy checkup last year, the 19-year-old was given a yellow voucher worth $10. After 10 visits, in which she improved her diet and learned how to care for an infant, she gave birth to a healthy baby daughter. "There are a lot of girls out there who are naive," Jones says. "The vouchers are a good way to get them to come...
...dead of meningitis. Nixon wrote later that he cried every day for weeks. When Harold, the eldest son, was stricken with tuberculosis, Hannah left the rest of the family to take him to the dryer air in Prescott, Arizona. She could pay for this only by operating a clinic where other TB patients waited out their last weeks of life. In the summers Dick found jobs nearby as a janitor, a chicken plucker, a carnival barker. After five years, Harold died. "We all grew up rather fast in those years," Nixon recalled...
...conceptual revolution that is just now sweeping into the clinic began in the 1960s, when researchers started to realize that cancer is a disease of DNA, the master molecule that encodes the genetic script of life. One of DNA's most important jobs is to govern cell division, the process by which a cell makes a copy of itself and splits in two. Ordinarily, cell division is tightly regulated, but a cancer cell divides uncontrollably, pushing into surrounding tissue...
...food or beds, hoping the few foreigners there would protect them. Their terror only increased as the foreigners slipped away. At a hilltop compound for the insane, a group of Belgian nuns and lay brothers abandoned 200 of their patients in a desperate rush to escape. For days the clinic had been surrounded by bands of machete-armed Hutu men. The foreigners had little doubt about the future of their patients or the 500 Tutsis who had come for refuge $ from the fighting outside. "They're finished," said hospital administrator Gerard Van Selst as he boarded an armored Belgian convoy...