Word: clinicism
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...government said it was lavishing on 9/11 terror suspects. His bullhorn pleas met with silence, Moore took his cargo of the ailing - the rescue workers, Donna and Larry Smith and a few others featured in the film - to Havana, where they got excellent, imaginative, sympathetic care from a local clinic. (At least one of the patients returned on her own, and told the Associated Press she received the same level of treatment...
...field's main challenge today is getting the best of that research ready, through trials like the one at Moorfields, so that patients to reap the benefits. "Moving something from the laboratory into the clinic, the difficulty of doing that is enormous," says Ali in London. "It's very exciting that we've managed to get this...
...mistake, however, to stick too rigidly to these definitions. "At one time people thought that migraine was a disorder all its own and that tension-type headache was totally separate," says Dr. Ninan Mathew, director of the Houston Headache Clinic. "Now we realize that headaches are not that clear cut." Indeed, Mathew says, nearly any recurring headache that is debilitating enough to keep you away from work or the things you enjoy is probably a migraine...
Similarly, antidepressants have been used to help prevent migraines. "If antidepressants were discovered today and we didn't know they were antidepressants, we'd call them analgesics," says Dr. Seymour Diamond, director of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago. Intriguingly, the pain-fighting effect of antidepressants takes just three to 10 days to kick in, less than half the time needed to alleviate depression. This suggests that depression and migraine are triggered by different, though related, neural pathways...
...certain way. Treatments based on the DNA you carry, known as “personalized medicine,” offer a range of benefits over current treatments: more precise doses of potentially toxic drugs, better research into new drugs, and lower health care costs, according to a Mayo Clinic brief. And research into personalized treatments would accelerate if every individual possessed a readout of their...