Word: treating
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...over 1 trillion dollars, the United States medical system was recently ranked 18th among developed countries by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO found that other developed countries that ranked higher than the United States encouraged a pluralistic health care system which incorporated nontraditional therapies, especially to treat chronic ailments. This strongly suggests that the over 100 million Americans with chronic illness would benefit from having access to alternative therapies...
...Helene Wilson, the decision to participate in a clinical trial of tamoxifen took no thought at all. Scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health wanted to know if the drug, used for 25 years to treat breast cancer, could prevent the disease. The question was of more than academic interest to Wilson, 48, a North Wales, Pa., nurse and mother of two. Four close relatives, including her mother and grandmother, had died of breast cancer at an early age. Wilson herself had a history of benign lumps in her breast. She was, her doctor once...
...about tamoxifen's longer-term effects. Will women have to take the drug for the rest of their life? Does the protective effect decrease over time? Will new side effects show up with long-term use? Will tumors that appear while a woman is on tamoxifen be harder to treat (preliminary studies suggest they may be)? Can other drugs confer comparable protection without side effects? And most important, did taking tamoxifen lengthen or shorten these women's life...
Several times a year, Brother Bill takes a group of gangsters to Notre Dame, to football and basketball team practices and games. The gang members guest-lecture to students and faculty at the Center for Social Concerns and university workshops. "They treat us like movie stars," says Paris. "I like going down there and telling them what our life is like and learning about theirs...
...here nonetheless. The Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company and Mainly Jazz are having a recital this weekend, to the tunes of "Firebird" and "Mainly Jazz." If the groups' past shows are any indication of what Friday and Saturday night will bring, than ballet-goers are in for a true treat...