Word: treatment
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...incidence of AIDS cases increases, however, so will the payouts. Between now and 1991, if the number of AIDS victims grows to a projected 400,000, the cost of their treatment will total more than $37 billion, estimates the California-based Rand Corp., a private research institute. Much of that money will come from public health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and from the pockets of the victims themselves. But $10 billion or so could be paid out by private insurance firms. A recent study, by Massachusetts Actuaries Michael Cowell and Walter Hoskins, predicts that by the year 2000, AIDS...
...that, he says, "seem to have been related to fatigue and lack of supervision," Health Commissioner David Axelrod appointed a blue- ribbon committee of New York doctors to investigate. Axelrod had been particularly upset by the case of Libby Zion, an 18-year-old Manhattanite who died while undergoing treatment for a high fever at New York Hospital in 1984; a grand jury attributed her death to neglectful treatment by tired and undersupervised young residents...
...discovered that there is a faulty gene that triggers a rare form of colon cancer and found its general location. The discovery, said Sir Walter Bodmer, director of research at London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund and a principal investigator, may eventually enable doctors to provide better diagnosis and treatment for all patients with colon cancer, which in the West is the second most deadly form of the disease, after lung cancer...
...Obviously the hope must be that as we learn how the gene works, we can use that to find new ways of treatment," says Bodmer. Indeed, researchers speculate that some remedies may be fairly simple: a diet high in fiber and calcium, for example, may prevent or compensate for these genetic deficiencies...
...well as textile factories and chemical plants. Taxi drivers and bus operators in Seoul and Kwangju declined to accept passengers. In all, some 200,000 workers were idled by job actions. A striker in Pusan expressed the pent-up frustrations of many: "It is our turn to receive humane treatment. We have the right to a decent living...