Word: treates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...child by teaching him or her to swim. There has been the facilitation movement, in which "facilitators" supposedly helping nonverbal autistic children type words turned out to be making the statements themselves, and the secretin controversy, in which parents paid thousands of dollars for a hormone believed to successfully treat autism before several clinical trials showed no actual impact. All of these cost parents small fortunes and years of anguish. And all of them are still being practiced by some segments of the autism community today. (See six tips for traveling with an autistic child...
Which Painkiller Is Right? One opioid is associated with a significantly higher risk of overdose than other drugs: methadone, which is being used increasingly to treat chronic pain because it is cheaper and draws less scrutiny than other strong, long-acting opioids like Oxycontin...
Potential to Treat Psychological Pain One of the most intriguing new findings regarding opioid use came out of a study including 696 Navy and Marine troops who were injured in combat in Iraq between 2004 and 2006. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January, the study found that soldiers who were given morphine during resuscitation and treatment for physical trauma were half as likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as those who did not get the drug. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...both overprescribing and underprescribing," says Volkow, who notes that, for instance, many dentists give opioids like Percoset too freely to teenagers after surgical procedures; in contrast, "you have individuals with very severe pain who are not given opioids or who are given doses that are [too low to treat the pain], and that in and of itself can put them at risk...
Rawnsley does not allege that Brown hit anyone. His book does claim that Brown swore at U.S. political strategist Bob Shrum, stabbed the white leather interior of an official car with a black pen, grabbed a staff member by the lapels and earned a "pep talk" about how to treat staff from Cabinet Secretary, Gus O'Donnell. Taken together with Watt's depiction of a temperamental premier sulking at a dinner including Louis Susman, later appointed U.S. ambassador to London, after guests took their seats without waiting for Brown to allocate placements, and Price's account of Brown's "extraordinary...