Word: clinicism
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...hospital in Fort Knox, Ky., to get treatment for the excruciating headaches that had accompanied him home. For five months, he made the rounds of Army medical personnel, who couldn't cure a pain that grew steadily worse. Unable to make room for him in a pain-management clinic, the Army increasingly plied him with drugs to dull the torment...
...late morning in Wantugu, and a small cluster of health staff and community volunteers is gathered in front of the village clinic. They mill around impatiently, chomping watermelon and cracking groundnuts as they wait for a few of their female colleagues to finish fetching water and join them. Finally, they pair off and enter the village on he first of of what will be many such "case searches" to be held this year. Their objective? To find cases of of Guinea worm in the homes of their neighbors...
...many experts, the results were both a surprise and a warning. "The fact that the trial showed a huge LDL reduction, and that things were still going the wrong way [in terms of plaque buildup] is stunning," says Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and an outspoken critic of the delay in the release of the study results. "This study shows that it matters how you lower cholesterol, not just how much you lower cholesterol...
...Vytorin - three larger trials are currently under way to measure the drug's effect on heart attack and stroke - and many physicians are not optimistic. "Given these results, it's highly unlikely that those outcomes studies will show dramatic benefit for Vytorin," notes Dr. Raymond Gibbons of the Mayo Clinic, and past president of the American Heart Association...
Cook is now concerned about larger issues, such as the central government's failure to maintain the U.S. financed school improvements and to allow the clinic they funded to stay open 24-hours. The government is also balking at incorporating the dozens of armed volunteer Sunni neighborhood watchmen into the Iraqi police...