Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regulations forbid labeling that "represents, suggests or implies that the food ... is adequate or effective in the prevention, cure, mitigation or treatment of any disease or symptom...
...underground railroad for 19th century slaves, steadfastly claimed that they had a religious duty to aid people who fear abuse, prison or even death in their homeland. But to the Federal Government, which last year prosecuted 18,000 cases of smuggling illegal aliens, church activists warrant no special treatment. Says Commissioner Alan C. Nelson of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "No group, no matter how well meaning and highly motivated, can arbitrarily violate the laws of the United States...
Consumer complaints about the high cost of health care have produced results in Maryland. This summer the state attorney general's office will issue a free guide to help people save money on medical treatment. The booklet, the first of its kind in the U.S., will list the names of about 13,000 Maryland doctors and health professionals and how much they charge for services, especially office visits, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures. Shoppers will find that costs can vary greatly. For example, an appendectomy performed in Baltimore could range from $800 to $1,000. But that fee drops...
...experimental treatment with perhaps fewer ill effects involves a synthetic substance called nafarelin, similar to gonadotropin-relea sing hormone. Normally GnRH is released in bursts by the hypothalamus gland, eventually triggering the process of ovulation. But "if the GnRH stimulation is given continuously instead of in pulses," explains Dr. Robert Jaffe of the University of California, San Francisco, "the whole (ovulatory) system shuts off," and the endometrial implants "virtually melt away...
...tiny video camera and a laser. The camera images, enlarged on a video screen, enable Nezhat to zero in on endometrial tissue and vaporize it with the laser. In a study of 102 previously infertile patients, Nezhat found that 60.7% were able to conceive within two years of videolaseroscopy treatment...