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Chinese medical spokesmen claim that they have begun curing patients by applying western-style medication to acupuncture points. Sivim quoted a statistic which alleged an 87.5 percent cure rate for acupuncture treatment of whooping cough...
...history: thalidomide. Of course it is not being given to women of childbearing age, but at the PHS Hospital in Carville, La., and at several other centers in the U.S. and elsewhere, it has been shown to arrest some phases of the disease process, although it is no cure. What encourages leprosy specialists most is the fact that the number of patients regularly attending clinics is increasing. Not because the disease is becoming more common, but because, with fear reduced and hope increased, proportionately more victims are presenting themselves for treatment. New York City, with three clinics already serving more...
Grover claims the same "cure" rate as A.A.-70%. In an exuberant mood, he will raise that percentage to 100%, arguing that "the program never fails for anyone who follows it." He can recite the usual dramatic case histories -like that of Elly, a housewife who joined N.A. after 13 years in futile psychiatric treatment. A few months later she filled a salad bowl with her collection of tranquilizers, sleeping pills and other drugs and flushed them all down the toilet...
...thin people like to call fat farms. Once the exclusive retreats of aging women seeking youth in a steam box, these all-purpose spas are now catering to a new clientele: the flabby, frazzled American male. Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, 5 ft. 10 in., 185 Ibs., recently took the cure at La Costa, near San Diego, Calif. His report on one of the U.S.'s newest and most lavish spas...
...aggression for the male chauvinist; sex is obligation for traditional women. And among the young, the moderit, the hip, it's only a subtle version of the same. For us to become heterosexual in the sense that our straight brothers and sisters are is not a cure, it is a disease...