Word: cure
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...need for narcotics. MBO also cuts healing time one-third for many burns, he says. And that reduction can sharply reduce scarring. Some cases requiring skin grafting operations in the U.S. can be treated with ointment alone, he contends. "I am totally confident," asserts Xu, "that the burn cure will be accepted here...
...burn patients are U.S. doctors likely to take these claims seriously. Before-and-after photographs prove little, since a few patients have healed surprisingly well under any circumstances. Concludes Dr. Fred Caldwell, president of the American Burn Association: "It's one thing to make claims of a miracle cure. It's another to back up those claims with good clinical trials." The ointment may ultimately prove to be of some value, but in medicine new treatments have to pass the test -- again and again -- before they become miracles...
...Conville, chief steward of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), said Lamft is advertising the restructuring as "a cure-all for the whole thing" when he should be concentrating on management problems and readjusting carriers' routes...
...haven't found any cure-all," Morse said. "From the police perspective, it's education as much...
Unfortunately, the Mediterranean is so filthy that even a major cleanup effort would make little difference for years. The animals may not have that much time. There is no known cure for the virus, and scientists and environmentalists alike fear that dolphins could become no more than a memory in the Mediterranean...