Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listen to him on the subject of aging -- which, as so many things do, attracts and repels him. "Scientists are working right now, while we are having lunch, to give us a better life. I hope they make some big breakthroughs soon. If you could only reconcile the mental with the physical, then throw in the emotional! These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used...
That's the kind of mental snapshot visitors carry away with them after meeting General Wojciech Jaruzelski. It is also the framed portrait that Poland's President, who last week announced his willingness to step down, will bequeath to the nation. Easily his country's most controversial postwar political figure, Jaruzelski, 67, will leave office even more of an enigma than when he first came to power nearly a decade...
...many who suffer from chronic schizophrenia, the drug clozapine seems to work miracles. One woman who thought she was God and could control the weather was in and out of mental institutions 35 times before starting on the antipsychotic drug. After only a few weeks of treatment, she was free from delusions and making plans to go to college. Clozapine, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in February, could benefit an estimated 100,000 people...
That situation has stirred outrage, not only from patients but also from lawmakers, public health-insurance officials and many of the nation's prominent mental-health professionals. Last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Carl Salzman, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, called Sandoz's actions "monopolistic" and demanded that the drug company and health officials come to an agreement that would make the drug more accessible to "the patients for whom it is intended." Earlier this month, Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas introduced legislation that would reduce Sandoz's control...
...provide Sandoz, or a company under contract to Sandoz, with a blood sample -- is no more than an elaborate form of gouging. "There are many, many ways to do the same job for a lot less money," said Harvard's Salzman. He and others argue that most hospitals and mental-health clinics could conduct the same testing at a lower cost. They point out that in Europe, where the blood testing is not mandatory, the drug costs only about $1,300 a year. Salzman calls the refusal of some state Medicaid programs to pay the full price of clozapine "outrageous...