Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for something that would be gentler in action and effective when taken by mouth. His chemist collaborators found betahistine dihydro-chloride, now manufactured under the trade name Sere by New Jersey's Unimed, Inc. Just approved for general prescription, Sere has already been taken by 14,000 patients under the care of almost 300 physicians. Because Meniere's symptoms come and go unpredictably, evaluation of any treatment is a long and tedious process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew which was the drug and which was the dummy sugar...
...must be "collimated"-made to follow parallel paths. In their machine, the Nashville dentists use a stainless-steel plate with a rectangular window to accomplish collimation; they also use much more shielding and a steel bracket to hold the film just where it ought to be, without subjecting the patient's hand to radiation. The result, according to PHS tests, is a radiation dose delivered to the skin only one-half to one-fourth that from a recommended standard machine. Radiation to the cornea of the eye is reduced to one-eighteenth...
Some dentists dismiss such precautionary measures as too costly and unnecessary. But all radiation (except that used in medical treatment for specific diseases) is bad. The PHS urges that every patient's body be protected with a lead apron, and it is backing several inventive dentists in their efforts to develop safer machines...
Committed Churches. Under Visser 't Hooft's patient, paternal direction, the World Council has grown from a dream of committed individuals to a reality of committed churches, from a modest club of European and American Protestants to a worldwide brotherhood of 217 Christian churches representing every Christian view but that of Rome. And thanks to the continuing dialogue with the Vatican that Visser 't Hooft has carefully fostered, even Roman Catholic participation in the council is no longer beyond hope...
...died. Hugo's riverscape is delicate and brooding, his ample nude is created with a few bold strokes. Other subjects range from classical to genre, and, typically, the plates begin with a love scene and end with a disputation between doctors as death steals away with their patient...