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In 2005, McCarthy's son Evan, then 2, began having seizures so severe he required repeated emergency hospitalization. McCarthy had noticed that Evan had some developmental delays, compared with his peers in a playgroup they attended, and he exhibited some atypical behaviors: arm flapping, repetitive actions and fixation on strange...
Some of the overdose cases involved known drug misuse or suicide attempts, while others were due to patient error, but the study could not identify exactly what went wrong in all of the cases. Was it the high-prescribed dose alone, or were there other risk factors like illness, escalation...
Better Treatment Regimens Needed Over the past few decades, researchers have made strides in understanding the treatment of certain kinds of pain. Relieving acute pain from trauma or surgery, for instance, reduces immediate suffering, but also speeds healing and reduces complications; the short-term use of opioids in the hospital...
A Weekend in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 1978 We turn out from the American School's Little League game, straight into a line of tanks. "It's a parade!" says my mother gaily, hoping we children won't notice that the soldiers have their guns cocked. That night, as Soviet-made...
In addition, this move assumes that Liebermann is one to act rationally, or to care about his popularity in the first place. This may not be the case, since Lieberman is even now opposing reforms that he once avidly purported. In the 2000 presidential race, the then-vice presidential candidate...