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...spent small fortunes on obscure rejuvenating treatments in Switzerland and sheep-gland injections in Rumania, or have turned to holistic healers, megavitamin therapists, even voodoo doctors and spiritualists. Doctors caution AIDS patients about quackery but understand why their advice is often ignored. Says Dr. Michael Lange, an infectious-disease specialist at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan: "If I were told that I was going to die from AIDS in two years, I would seek help wherever I could find...
...hope is for one nationally coordinated effort. [The HCGP] would bring it all under one roof,” said Dorie Hightower, public affairs specialist at the National Cancer Institute...
...that Sino-Indian meetings were something like a graduate seminar on development economics, it's plain that the two nations could one day end up as rivals. After all, they have been before: in 1962, China humiliated India in a border war, and that still rankles. Sun Shihai, a specialist on Sino-Indian relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, notes that although there has been a general rapprochement between New Delhi and Beijing since the 1980s, questions over the border continue to be an irritant. And in the future, the two nations' rapacious demand for energy will almost...
What does it mean when a kid has a tummy ache that won't go away? Many parents will, commendably, push to find a medical diagnosis. But the real solution may lie somewhere else. In a small study, children whose parents went from specialist to specialist but balked at considering that emotional issues might be the culprit had a 3-in-10 recovery rate. Of families that accepted a referral to child-psychological services, 11 of 13 saw improvements...
...DIAGNOSIS OF PVS MADE? A neurologist examines the patient on several occasions, looking for signs of awareness. Are there consistent responses to simple requests--to move a finger, for example? Do the eyes follow the doctor across the room? The specialist often observes the patient in the presence of family to see if there is any response. Brain scans may show the extent of any damage, particularly after some time has passed and dead neural tissue is replaced by cerebrospinal fluid...