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Most mental-health experts today strongly disagree with the use of brutal confrontation or humiliation as therapy - particularly for vulnerable youths who have troubled pasts. Research suggests that feelings of being out of control characterize the typical patient's response to traumatic life events; consequently, recovery requires the avoidance of coercion. Experts say that pressuring trauma victims to retell their stories against their will tends to increase stress symptoms rather than alleviate them. And brain research associates feelings of shame and humiliation to stress responses that exacerbate depression and anxiety and may contribute to physical illness. In addition, isolation from...
...federal funding - under Bush's policy, only a couple dozen lines qualified, whereas the new guidelines would include up to 700 or so lines, according to the NIH - it would prevent scientists from studying the one thing that would bring this treatment from the lab bench to the patient bedside: patient-specific stem cells. Because stem cells from donated embryos would not be genetically matched to the patients who need them, in practice, treating a patient with a spinal cord injury or diabetes who could benefit from the cells would create the serious possibility of immune rejection...
...those other purposes, however, that will be necessary to develop stem-cell therapies for human use. It's unlikely that the Food and Drug Administration would approve any stem cell therapy that involves transplanting cells or tissues from one patient to another, without addressing the potential of immune rejection - but as our organ transplant history reveals, these challenges remain formidable...
...responsible for the development of electronic health records. It is a small country (population: 5 million) with an IT-savvy citizenry. Trust in the federal government is high. Most helpfully, the country's healthcare is run by the public sector. When the country's health service established a National Patient Registry in 1977 - a system that required doctors to file patient visit details to the government health service in order to be reimbursed for their work - the country unknowingly laid the groundwork for electronic health records by putting in place centralized record keeping. "We are happy to be seen...
...been so patient. When I evacuated suburbia almost four years ago for haven in Cambridge, I figured that my musical internment was finally over, that I was headed into a utopia of playlist swaps and impromptu banjo-and-melodica practice sessions...