Word: clinicism
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...They were people with very bad disease and therefore needed urgently to get the drugs,” Idoko said yesterday in a phone interview from his clinic in Jos. “The demand for drugs in this country is so high...
...Chief of Medicine Soheyla D. Gharib said last night she had not heard of the problem, but found two cases of irritation in clinic logs...
...sores, but ulcerating infections of the mouth, genitals or anus that raged for months. The patients fell prey to exotic bugs seen more often in animals than humans, like Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptosporidium, which causes diarrhea. Doctors were appalled. Says Dr. Paul Volberding, 36, who heads the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital: "You see someone your own age dying of such a gruesome disease that you can't do anything to stop...
...AIDS in Haiti and, oddly enough, in parts of southeastern Florida. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000), Fla., with 46 cases, has the highest incidence in the U.S. "There is raw sewage on the ground and rats running all around," says Dr. Mark Whiteside of Miami's Tropical Medicine Clinic. Filth, insects and a high rate of tuberculosis, he suggests, might contribute to the epidemic...
Moral outrage is only one of Houston's concerns. The sex arcades have also become "a prime center for the transmission of disease," says Dr. James Haughton, director of the Houston health and human services department. Nearly 11% of the 214 cases of syphilis detected by one city clinic in the first quarter of this year have been tracked to the arcades. Now the spread of AIDS has intensified Houston officials' fears about the anonymous sex parlors, which cater to homosexuals...