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...Norden Laboratories, a Nebraska-based division of the SmithKline Beckman drug company, has been working on a vaccine that inhibits the growth of leukemia in cats. Says Product Manager Reynolds Davis: "If everything goes smoothly, we could have a product out in 1984." With testing nearly complete and a cure rate of 80% to 95%, Norden is working to expand production to mass-market scale...
...thought of treatment, says Psychologist Thomas Burish of Vanderbilt University. "One woman even vomited in a drugstore when she saw the nurse who administered her therapy." Burish has helped cancer patients control their anxiety and nausea through biofeedback and progressive muscle-relaxation training. While the technique is not a cure, he says, "pa-tients do gain a positive feeling of being in control again. It is one of the few things they can do to help themselves...
...long, intricate comic lines that are his art's hallmark, the cameras would turn. And turn. And turn some more, through hundreds of takes. For it was only by studying what Chaplin the comedian had done that Chaplin the director could judge his work in progress. In The Cure (1917), for example, he starts with a simple entrance, pushing a gouty man's wheel chair. Nothing very funny about that. But as the days wear on, that single chair be comes half a dozen of them, and Chaplin turns himself into a bellboy functioning as a policeman trying...
...that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders. He and other physicians of the time recommended it for both the cure and the prevention of migraine, neuralgia, and other symptoms of chronic anxiety-tension...
...Better-educated Saudis, including numerous princes and princesses, rarely get medical care at home, preferring the better-known hospitals abroad. Gray's vivid anecdotes tell of other incongruities of the country: royal patients who demand an entourage of 100 attendants in the hospital. Bedouins who try to cure themselves by branding, and their wives, who are willing to strip for a physical examination only if they may keep their long black veils over their faces...