Word: regimen
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...simple as possible. But in the case of diabetes, simplicity is not the best policy. On Sunday the National Institutes of Health announced the results of a 10-year, $165 million study that proved that the most effective treatment for severe diabetes is a complex, time-consuming regimen to control blood-sugar levels tightly. Patients who make that extra effort will lower their risk of suffering blindness, kidney failure or many other complications of diabetes...
...regimen has its own risks. As the number of insulin shots increases, so does the chance that patients will accidentally push their blood sugar too low -- a condition called hypoglycemia, which can lead to seizures and death. Most diabetics recognize the early symptoms, such as light-headedness, and eat something sweet before the effects become dangerous. But because of the risk of hypoglycemia, the intensive treatment program is not recommended for children under seven and elderly people who are frail...
...Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of RU 486, and his French colleagues describe the successful tests of the no-injection method in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This new regimen," they conclude, "is simpler and potentially allows greater privacy than any other abortion method." In a tough accompanying editorial, the Journal brands efforts to block use of the drug in the U.S. a "disgrace...
...chance to interview singers Travis Tritt and Doug Stone on the urgent subject of "why country music is so popular." New York's WABC-TV used a Kathie Lee Gifford special on motherhood as the pretext for a feature on her TV partner Regis Philbin's exercise regimen...
...nitwits who have convinced themselves that they are ill. Boyle gives us, among many others, Will and Eleanor Lightbody, a vacuously neurasthenic couple from upstate New York. She is idle and decorative, the kind of woman who latches on to gurus. He is weak and silly, dazed from the regimen of opiates and alcohol she has administered to him as "tonics." The therapeutic tortures Will endures are grotesque, but the novel's direction is predictable, and all that the story must resolve is how long it takes Will to gather his meager wits and clear out. Loosely related subplots, thrown...