Word: treated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't have much, but the kids enjoyed it," said 13-year-old Peggy Wong, who planned the haunted house with 10 other teens who said they felt too old to trick-or-treat, but still wanted to participate in the festivities...
...past 15 years, doctors have tried to treat the underlying disorder with the pharmaceutical equivalent of a sledgehammer, using anticancer drugs and steroids to beat down the body's hyperactive defense forces. The tactic is only moderately effective and has side effects that can be as bad as the disease itself, leaving patients drained of energy and prone to sores and other infections...
What researchers now realize is that to treat the joint disease they don't have to clobber the whole immune system, just certain portions of it. Nor do they have to destroy their targets; they can merely stun them momentarily...
...doing this study, we sought to understand how racial discrimination affects health in ways that may be modified by social class and gender," said Krieger, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. "This is profoundly different from approaches that treat 'race' as if it were some kind of inherent characteristic...
Have the nation's teachers lost their minds? The spate of news stories would have you think so. Maybe Bob Dole was on to something when he blamed the people who mind our ABCs for everything that's wrong in the schools. Certainly, it does look absurd to treat Advil as the gateway to addiction and a seven-year-old's clumsy mauling as sexual harassment...