Word: methodism
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...pregnancy be performed in a hospital seemed to conform to the Roe vs. Wade ruling that the state can make regulations that are "reasonably related" to the health of the woman after the first trimester. But the court, citing advances in medical technology, ruled that the abortion method known as dilatation and evacuation "may be performed safely on an outpatient basis in appropriate nonhospital facilities" during the early part of the second trimester. Thus there is no longer any constitutional reason to require that this procedure be performed in hospitals rather than in the nation's approximately 400 abortion...
...Louis police department, one of the video pioneers, has employed the tape method on crimes ranging from burglary to murder. Says homicide division Lieut. William Wilson: "When defense lawyers see the tape, they usually tell their clients, 'Take whatever they'll give...
...epidemic continues. An estimated 20.5 million Americans already have genital herpes, and several times that number live in fear of getting it. Their yearning for relief, a method of prevention and a cure for the virus has driven some to extremes; herpes sufferers have been known to try everything from hair dryers to Clorox to heal their lesions. Now, for the first time, it looks as though help and, more important, a means of preventing the disease...
Progress has recently been made in other areas of herpes research. Dr. Lata Nerurkar of the National Institute of Neurological Communicative Disorders and Stroke has developed a 24-hour test to diagnose herpes; she predicts that a six-to eight-hour method will be available by year's end. Only six months ago it took from two to seven days to diagnose herpes. Speed is especially important in the case of women who are about to give birth. If the disease is active, doctors generally resort to caesarian delivery since the baby may become infected-often fatally-while passing...
John V. Lintner Jr., Gand Professor of Economics and Business Administration. died on June 8. in an automobile accident in Cambridge. Lintner, who was 67, was widely known in the financial and academic communities for his major contribution to the capital asset pricing model, a method of estimating the future value of an investment...