Word: treating
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...medical community's response is the opposite of what it should be; health care experts treat medicine as a competitive economic market. Some financial inducements have existed since the 1970s. Common incentives include educational loan forgiveness, adjustments to the relative value of Medicare's payment schedule, and tuition assistance in exchange for service in under-served areas ("Northern Exposure's" Fleischmann takes part in such a program). Barely a stop-gap measure, this kind of solution hardly cuts to the heart of the problem...
...truth, the San Francisco treat...
...group of Medical School researchers has discovered a bizarre twist on the harmful effects of car exhaust and cigarette smoke: nitric oxide, a component of both pollutants, can help treat a deadly type of pneumonia...
...test for the presence of the compound may allow doctors to spot and treat patients in the early stages. By implicating a compound important in cell division, the group may have uncovered a central culprit in causing cancer, which is characterized by the unregulated and rapid proliferation of cells...
...provides a much earlier window to detect and treat breast cancer," Folkman said. "They're going back even earlier than when there's a lump...