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...Michelle Winner's social-skills clinic in San Jose, Calif., business is booming. Every week dozens of youngsters with Asperger syndrome file in and out of therapy sessions while their anxious mothers run errands or chat quietly in the waiting room. In one session, a rosy-cheeked 12-year-old struggles to describe the emotional reactions of a cartoon character in a video clip; in another, four little boys (like most forms of autism, Asperger's overwhelmingly affects boys) grapple with the elusive concept of teamwork while playing a game of 20 Questions. Unless prompted to do so, they seldom...
Berlin runs one of the largest such programs in the nation. Since 1991 hundreds of pedophiles have gone to the creaky Victorian building that houses his clinic. Berlin sees their condition as similar to alcoholism--incurable but treatable--and some of his methods sound similar to those of Alcoholics Anonymous. The pedophiles must admit their urges and confront them in group therapy. Counselors help them restructure their lives so that they don't come into contact with children. Berlin prescribes medication to reduce sex drives for the 30% of his patients who don't respond to nondrug therapy...
Though Kaptchuk has worked at HMS for 12 years and served as the director of the Shattock Hospital Pain Clinic before then, his unconventional training meant less acceptance earlier in his career. “People brought me in because of my training in Chinese medicine,” he says. “But for many years people tried to keep me in the closet. People didn’t know how to deal with me.” But by publishing several scholarly articles and demonstrating his capacity as an expert researcher, Kaptchuk has climbed...
...lesson would have been a lot less shocking if McGee's vaccine trial had been run out of a back-alley clinic or a storefront in Tijuana. In fact, the study was conducted at the St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla., and co-sponsored by the respected University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. It had been approved by the university's institutional review board, or IRB, a body set up to ensure that such trials meet federal standards for experimental design--including the obligation to inform participants of any safety issues. And it had been given the green light...
...Washington, Dr. Eliot Battle, a Harvard researcher, has opened a new clinic called Cultura: Skin Care for All Skin Colors. He is using Cool Touch on patients with darker complexions, whose skin often gets discolored by harsher treatments. In New York City, many financial professionals make a lunch-hour pilgrimage to the uptown dermatology clinics of Neil Sadick, Lori Polis and Roy Geronemus...