Word: clinicism
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...March of 1957, The Crimson reported that the block bounded by Mill, Mt. Auburn, Plympton and DeWolfe Streets had been chosen as the site for the new House and would cost about $5 million to construct. At the time, the site was occupied by a psychological clinic, Mather Hall—a part of Leverett House—and a row of houses on DeWolfe St. In the three decades since the construction of Lowell House in 1930, the cost of handsome Georgian architecture had ballooned out of the range of possibility, so the residents of Quincy House would have...
...TIME:Your book is subtitled, "Dispatches From America's Religious Battlefields." Yet in your introduction you refer to the Bible riots of the 1840s that killed 13 people in Philadelphia. Should we distinguish between that kind of violence and contemporary abortion clinic killings, which you also mention...
...camp. "There are tens of wounded, but nobody can reach them," said Nora Abdel-Wahad, a mother, 51. "There's no water, no food. We have lived three days with no electricity." A Palestinian employee of the U.N. agency responsible for the refugees said that the tiny medical clinic in the camp - home to some 40,000 people - had been completely overwhelmed. "The wounded cannot move anywhere," he said. "If they can't reach medical help, they...
...Mustafa, a Palestinian employee of the U.N. agency responsible for refugees, had found himself trapped in the camp when fighting broke out. He said that the Fatah al-Islam militants were forcing people to remain in the camp by shooting at anyone attempting to flee. The one tiny medical clinic in the camp was completely overwhelmed with casualties, he said. "The wounded cannot move anywhere. If they can't reach medical help, they die," he explained, adding that he and his colleagues were forced to amputate the hand of a wounded man themselves...
...Renowned heart scientist Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, lead author of the study, analyzed what happened to 15,560 patients who were given Avandia and 12,283 in a control group. Using data from already published studies, Nissen found 86 myocardial infarctions in the group that took rosiglitzone, the chemical name for Avandia, compared with 72 in the control group. The number of deaths from heart disease was also higher - 39 among people who took the drug, compared to 22 for the control group. A few dozen deaths out of more than 15,000 subjects may seem small...