Word: treatment
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Since 1974, Sagan has rewritten and expanded his attack on Velikovsky for publication in the new book, Scientists Confront Velikovsky. In addition to Sagan's remarks and the transcribed speeches of three other AAAS symposium participants--a sociologist, a statistician, and another astronomer--the collection contains a fresh treatment of Velikovsky by a NASA astronomer. The fact that Velikovsky's contribution--which along with Sagan's speech highlighted the meeting--is missing from the book is at first surprising. However, examination of the history of the Velikovsky controversy and of the publishers' unpublished correspondence with him makes the absence...
Indeed, it was brainstorming that got the lab's first project-a study of sickle-cell anemia-off to a heady start. The Rockefeller scientists realized that any treatment for this genetic disease, which affects perhaps 2 million people around the world, had to be directed at stopping the characteristic sickling, or distortion, of the red blood cells that occurs after they unload their cargo of oxygen. But how? During cocktail-party chatter, Lab Director Cerami learned from a colleague that a byproduct of urea-a chemical called cyanate-can prevent sickling. Tests on both animals and humans confirmed...
Ervin and Palmour emphasize that they have no firm proof that the molecule, which they have dubbed leu-endorphin, is the cause of-or even related to-schizophrenia. But if it is, its removal offers possible treatment for the illness, which accounts for nearly 20% of the mental patients in U.S. hospitals...
...kidney machine. Of ten patients studied, seven showed such a pronounced remission of their symptoms that they were able to leave the hospital for the first time in years. In fact, dialysis seems so promising that a dozen clinics are now planning to begin using it in experimental treatment of schizophrenics...
...prefer the tamer stage version of the work. An equally testing juncture shows a kneeling Strang in his room, a makeshift harness with reins attached to his head, beating his right thigh with a stick that passes for a riding crop, as his appalled father looks on. Ultimately, the treatment of these segments may certainly seem gratuitous, but Lumet did not aim at merely shocking his viewer. Rather, he tries to underscore the intensity of his protagonist's monomania...