Word: drs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostage situation might now be resolved. Earlier in the week, that seemed a remote possibility. The Shah's health had taken a turn for the worse. Aides reported to Washington that he had been sick to his stomach and was running a fever. At Carter's request, Drs. Benjamin Kean and Hibbard Williams, who had treated the Shah in New York City, flew to Lackland to examine him. They prescribed undisclosed therapy for his enlarged spleen but concluded there was no medical problem that would prevent his traveling to Panama...
...account for the placebo's magic, doctors have resorted to virtually every kind of psychological and physical explanation. No luck. Drs. Jon D. Levine and Howard I. Fields and Oral Surgeon Newton C. Gordon, all of the University of California in San Francisco, may have hit upon an answer. In an experiment involving dental patients having molars extracted, they gave them either a placebo or the drug naloxone, which is known to block the effects of endorphin, a morphine-like pain reliever produced by the brain itself...
...Journal of the American Medical Association. At a time when patients are demanding more candor, many physicians are asking themselves whether they should prescribe deceptively. Other doubts have also been raised. In a study of 60 physicians and 39 nurses at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Drs. James and Jean Goodwin and Albert Vogel found that the majority gave placebos to patients they disliked, considered difficult or suspected of exaggerating pain. When patients reported relief, the doctors and nurses incorrectly took that as proof of malingering. As one doctor told the researchers: "Placebos are used with people...
Similarly, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Drs. John Decker, Jacob Karsh and colleagues treated four patients-including Rachel-with lymphapheresis (removal of only the white blood cells) three times a week for five to six weeks. In all except two Los Angeles patients, the therapy provided startling improvement. Their stiffness and agony was relieved for a period averaging several months. An unexpected observation: some patients seemed to get help from drugs that had not been doing them much good, or were not expected to work...
...particularly dangerous in women: during delivery it can be transmitted to the infant; it is also linked to cervical cancer. For years, doctors have searched for a cure. Now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania may have achieved that goal. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Herbert Blough and Robert Giuntoli report testing a cream containing the sugar 2-deoxy-D-glucose on 36 women with genital herpes infections. Within four days, it cleared up symptoms in 90% of the women with first infections. For women with recurring infections, improvement was almost as dramatic. A next step...