Word: treatment
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...army, and certainly not from national service. What he must worry about is the report of the Marshall Commission, which is studying the draft for the President. The Commission will probably call for changes in the administration of the draft law, for revision of the local board system and treatment of conscientious objectors -- and those demands and the people making them are not easily...
...When the doctor examined me, he found some blisters on my hands and in my mouth. I was banged into a hospital at Newcastle for a week, but there was nothing much the matter with me." Nor was there anything much the doctors could do. There is no effective treatment for the viral disease, but nature's own healing power soon cured Brewis...
Although Meniere's disease claims hundreds of thousands of victims in the U.S. alone, it is not really a disease at all. It is a group of symptoms that have defied both explanation and effective treatment. However it is labeled, the disorder usually starts with a ringing in the ears (tinnitus), followed by impaired hearing, spells of dizziness accompanied by unbearable nausea, and severe vomiting. Meniere's, named for French Physician Prosper Meniere (1799-1862) who first described it, is so distressing that doctors are eager to try anything that will give their patients a measure of relief...
...dihydro-chloride, now manufactured under the trade name Sere by New Jersey's Unimed, Inc. Just approved for general prescription, Sere has already been taken by 14,000 patients under the care of almost 300 physicians. Because Meniere's symptoms come and go unpredictably, evaluation of any treatment is a long and tedious process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew which was the drug and which was the dummy sugar pill, Dr. Joseph C. Elia of Reno reported excellent results. Three-fourths of the time, the patients on the drug...
...Arnold Hart protested that "such an arbitrary and discriminatory" act could only "lay us open to retaliation." Possibly so. If the bill passes, the next U.S. Congress will probably act on a measure, sponsored by New York's Republican Sena tor Jacob Javits, that provides tit-for-tat treatment for countries where U.S. banks are unfairly hampered...