Word: inserted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least by ordinary medical standards. They include hypnosis, biofeedback and acupuncture. Some new approaches are also being explored. To numb sensitive areas of the back by killing nerves, the pain doctors have been injecting alcohol into the tiny nerves of the vertebrae. For problems with facet joints, they sometimes insert heated needles into the area's nerves, an acupuncture-like technique called surgical diathermy or facet denervation. Another popular tool of the pain clinicians: pocket-size electrical stimulators that patients carry around with them. Held against a painful area these gadgets provide a little shock that produces a tingling...
...crude, its dollars depreciate. Everyone is caught in a viscous circle-until the entrance of David Harrison, American freelance financial adviser, connoisseur of paintings, wine, well-bound books and unfettered women. Petrodollars, he reasons coldly, can rig almost anything, including the stock market. His plan is simple. Surreptitiously insert billions of those dollars into the U.S. stock market and then cut the price of oil to $10 per bbl. The Dow Jones average will go through the top of the World Trade Center, and the Kingdom will be an overnight hero to the hard-pressed West. The scheme works...
...licensed pharmacist, not a printed insert, is the best source of drug information for consumers. He can sense how much an individual needs to know about his medication, can help the patient monitor his progress and act as an effective link between patient and physician...
...leaflets will interfere with the doctor-patient relationship. Some contend that there are patients-for instance, some of those suffering from schizophrenia or cancer-who would be better off not knowing the precise nature of their ailments; yet they would probably be able to deduce the diagnosis from the insert. Still other doctors fear that PPIs could be seen as quasi-legal documents defining minimal standards of care, and thus expose them to more malpractice suits. Perhaps the most serious concern (shared by doctors, drug manufacturers and the FDA) is that a laundry list of possible adverse effects could scare...
Samuel Ussia wants to spearhead a second Renaissance at the intersection of Hampshire and Portland streets. Ussia, president of the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, hopes the construction of a $1 million Italian Center of Culture in Cambridge will be "the tool by which Italian-Americans insert themselves into the mainstream of the historical process in America...