Word: treating
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...speak. Half your body becomes useless. Until recently, doctors could do little more than watch as their stroke patients either recovered on their own or became permanently paralyzed. Then researchers determined that a drug called tissue plasminogen activator, or TPA, which has been used for years to treat heart attacks, can also alter the course of a stroke. But many physicians wouldn't try the new treatment because there is also a chance that it can make a stroke patient's condition worse. That reluctance may begin to fade now. The American Heart Association, having reviewed the data, last week...
...school, usually reserved only for Harvard's men's and women's squash teams, which collectively have lost only one match in the last four years. True, it would be a major upset if this soccer team won the national title, but one can certainly expect the Crimson to treat the rest of the Ivy League like toxic sludge--as in, disposed of as quickly as possible...
...school, usually reserved only for Harvard's men's and women's squash teams, which collectively have lost only one match in the last four years. True, it would be a major upset if this soccer team won the national title, but one can certainly expect the Crimson to treat the rest of the Ivy League like toxic sludge--as in, disposed of as quickly as possible...
...coincidence would have it, at the same time that the heroine is drifting toward a bad end, Didion's narrator is working on a magazine profile of the one person who might be able to save her: State Department troubleshooter Treat Morrison. "This was a man who could pick up the telephone and affect the Dow, reach the Foreign Minister of any one of a dozen NATO countries, the Oval Office itself." Morrison jets to the unnamed island where Elena is waiting to be paid, and the two of them...fall in love. "This is a romance after all," Didion...
...what experts call the right to "bodily integrity." They question the state's right to expose parolees to potentially dangerous side effects, and to prevent them from fathering children. They claim that determined ex-cons could reverse Depo-Provera's effects with other drugs--and that castration fails to treat the psychological roots of pedophilia. In fact, even Berlin, who favors the availability of voluntary chemical castration, opposes the California law. "There are many sex offenders for whom this is not going to be appropriate or useful," he says. "In effect, the legislators are practicing medicine without a license...