Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medicare for the aged and Medicaid assistance for the poor would be merged into a single, more generous "Healthcare" program; for example, no elderly person now on Medicare would have to pay more than $1,250 a year for treatment...
...tube that ends in a needle inserted under the skin of the abdomen or thigh. Before meals, patients can override the pre-set instructions and briefly step up the dosage by pressing a button. One incidental benefit, reports Felig: blood fats, including cholesterol, seem to return to normal during treatment...
While thus far effective in these limited cases, chronotherapy may not be suitable for all such night owls. Admits King: "During treatment, I felt like a zombie." But the effort seems to have been worthwhile. For the first time in years, she is off pills and getting a good night's rest. Says she: "This has changed my life...
...reversal of this surgical practice. After a nine-hour debate, they concluded what an increasing number of studies have been showing: that if breast cancer is discovered when tumors are still small (even if nearby lymph nodes are also cancerous), radicals may no longer be the preferred treatment. For such cases, although not necessarily in more advanced ones, the NIH "consensus" panel endorsed the so-called total mastectomy, with removal of some lymph nodes. This procedure, the panelists said, would not lessen chances of survival and offers several advantages...
Largely at the urging of a lay member, Rose Kushner, herself a breast cancer victim, the panel also recommended another reform. At present, most suspected breast cancer patients sign a paper upon admission to hospitals giving the surgeon blanket authority to undertake whatever treatment is deemed necessary, even if the initial intention is to do only a biopsy-taking a tissue sample from the breast to see if any cells are cancerous. To their great distress, many women have found upon awakening that the surgeon has taken a breast as well as the sample. Kushner persuaded the largely male panel...