Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researchers remove cancer cells from the patients' body and culture them with the drug for two to three weeks. The resulting mixture of cancer cells and white blood cells, called T-lymphocytes, is then injected into the patient...
...subjects. Some were victims of AIDS who during the previous four months had also suffered their first bout of PCP. The remaining subjects had ARC (AIDS-related complex); although they were infected with the AIDS virus, their symptoms were not as severe as those of full-blown AIDS. Each patient took a capsule every four hours. For slightly more than half the group, those capsules contained AZT. For the control group, the capsules contained a placebo, a harmless, inactive substance. The tests were "double blind" to ensure that results would be interpreted objectively; neither the doctors administering the tests...
...photograph of the Gloved One looking like the star of a B-grade sci-fi flick. Jackson got interested in the idea after he was hospitalized for burns two years ago and learned that hyperbaric chambers could speed up the healing of damaged tissue by enabling a patient to breathe oxygen for an hour or two under double the barometric pressure at sea level. "Michael says it is good for his body," Manager Frank DiLeo told USA Today. "I don't think so and neither does his doctor. I can't figure him out sometimes." Strange goings-on indeed...
...tell a client when in the course of the minute he's been on the phone with you the Dow has fallen 20 points?" Said Alan Klein, an investment-minded dentist from Roslyn Heights, N.Y.: "It was like a two-day root canal without anesthetic. You find me a patient who can keep cool under those conditions, I will find you an investor who can keep cool in this market...
Detoxification is only the first step: it must be supplemented by individual counseling, group therapy, vocational training and a range of activities to fill the void in a patient's life left by withdrawal. Phoenix House, one of the nation's largest community therapeutic programs, with facilities in New York and California, relies on rough-and-tumble group-encounter sessions that have proved effective in reshaping an addict's attitudes. Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, president of Phoenix House, says lying and rationalizations are a big part of being a drug abuser, and "the encounter enables him to see himself...