Word: medicale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Two 50-year-old men complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath head for their doctors' offices. In both cases, angiograms show that the patients are suffering from partly blocked arteries. But at this point the medical paths of these men, with identical symptoms but different doctors, may diverge...
Is it possible that where people live can determine what medical treatment they receive? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. "There is an underlying assumption that two doctors in two different places will prescribe the same treatment," says Dr. Phil Caper, who founded the Codman Research Group in Lyme, N.H., to...
A major reason that medical practices vary so widely is that doctors suffer from a shortage of certain essential information. Despite the proliferation of medical reports and journals, there are few statistics on the comparative results of clinical procedures. And there is no comprehensive national collection of data concerning what...
Like all AIDS care, other drugs showing promise in the lab will be expensive. At typical dosages, AZT costs each patient about $7,000 a year, and pentamidine up to $1,200. Since more than 1 million people in the U.S. are believed to be infected with the virus, the...
Despite all the progress, the AIDS virus still takes a terrible physical and emotional toll. Each day at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center, women infected with the AIDS virus ask if they can still have children. Patients are told that chances are greater than 1 in 4 that...