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...such drugs tends to be punitive. Under a new law, youthful offenders may be incarcerated for up to two years in a police-run "preventive educational treatment center." The job of these institutions, according to a recent article in the Soviet magazine Man and the Law, is to cure and "re-educate" inmates...
Hospitals hope their new marketing savvy will help cure the growing epidemic of empty beds. The national occupancy rate was only 63.7% during the first nine months of 1986, down from a traditional level of about 80%. One reason is the advance of medical technology, which has increased the number of procedures that can be performed on an outpatient basis. Another spur to health-care competition has been the dramatic efforts by insurance companies, employers and Government health-care programs, notably Medicare, to rein in runaway medical costs by encouraging shorter hospital stays. The Government, for example, now generally reimburses...
...then. That will be more difficult to convey, in part because we assume that to be human feels just about the same in any age. But we may be wrong about that as well. The terror and self-doubt we associate with being human you may have learned to cure with a shot or a pill. We will give you what we know. One secret of our age is that we are learning that democracy can kill democracy. For one thing, excessive freedoms have made it almost impossible for an ethical conscience to assert itself. People have been free...
...major brain damage accrued from an improper diet of leopard face and dinosaur crispitos, Early Man believed that the Hiss Joke was the end all. The current mainstream hypothesis is that "fine herbs" on our chicken is the causal element today, but regardless of the roots a cure must be found. It is inconceivable to continue life with hisses erupting over any professor's slightest mention of Yale, or that there might me a modicum of work due at any time for the class...
...cause of Alzheimer's and its cure remain unknown. This week, however, an important breakthrough will be announced in Washington that may change this bleak picture. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, scientists from New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine will reveal that they have identified what could be the first fully accurate diagnostic indicator of Alzheimer's in living people. The find could lead to improved therapy and even, in the next several years, to an understanding of what causes the illness...