Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than not, the victim's "crime" is merely suspected sympathy for the wrong political organization. Some of the most bitterly resented violence has been committed by the government's own security forces. Police in the city of Santa Ana last week attacked a hospital ostensibly used to treat injured leftists. They machine-gunned to death three doctors, four nurses and a baby. Later, military officials claimed the victims had resisted. Said a local lawyer, incredulously: "With what, their stethoscopes?" Peasants, in particular, are caught in a catch-22 dilemma. Leftist guerrilla organizations often give farmworkers the choice...
Last week the chemical that made that happy event possible got formal approval from the Food and Drug Administration for widespread use by expectant women. Calling it "the first safe and effective drug approved to treat premature labor," the federal agency said that ritodrine could help delay a sizable portion of the 300,000 live births a year that occur prematurely (any time before the 36th week of pregnancy...
...catalogue of grief and noble despair. By the cathartic ending, when there are no more tears to shed and no more afflictions to remember, Martha Lear is finally able to forgive. She realizes that the professionals could not per form a miracle: "The doctor does not exist who could treat such a gravely ill patient for such a long time without making mistakes . . . given their mortal limitations, they were more than good...
Judge: How does he treat...
Psychotropic drugs, such as chlorpromazine and haloperidol, are the main form of treatment. Because the Soviet pharmaceutical industry is small and cautious, it is slow to put new drugs into production. Soviet hospitals and dispensaries frequently treat schizophrenia with insulin shock therapy. After an insulin injection cuts blood sugar and induces coma, the patient is revived with glucose-a procedure repeated 20 or 30 times...