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...13th lowest rate. The reforms that were enacted after the revolution were only extended insofar as they helped Castro consolidate his control over the island. Doctors, for example, are expected to keep records of each family’s “political integration,” assessing their patient??s commitment to the failed ideals of the revolution prior to treating them...
Researchers believe the new procedure, which begins with a partial destruction of the patient??s bone marrow using a drug, may decrease organ rejection. The bone marrow gives rise to immune cells that help the body identify invaders. If the foreign marrow produces foreign cells, the study’s authors hypothesized that the body will recognize the transplant...
...second name in parentheses. “Untitled” (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) has two parenthetical names, which both suggest the psychological dialogue between the viewer and the piece. Placebos, typically sugar pills parading as medicine, only affect the body through the patient??s belief that the pill is an actual cure. A victim of AIDS, González-Torres was constantly facing thoughts of his own mortality. His work is both sensual and hopeful. The toffees have a placebo effect, changing the material candy into a more intangible and lasting...
...Consulting payments can induce physicians to make treatment decisions because of financial ties—and not necessarily in the patient??s interest—according to Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science program at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit consumer group...
...Luckily, the actors’ superb body language surmounted the script to skillfully convey each patient??s individual insanity. For instance, the painfully long smiles of depressed nurse Norma (Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10) and her fluid movements in the opening monologue presaged the abrupt jumps from one emotion to another that would occur throughout the play. Unfortunately, Bendorf sometimes delivered her lines with a nagging rhythm that reduced their effectiveness...