Word: treatment
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Lower back pain, as prevalent as the common cold, is the price human beings pay for walking upright. In most cases, simple treatments like bed rest, exercise and pain-killers bring relief. But many sufferers are not so lucky. If one or more of their spinal disks -- pulpy masses that cushion pairs of vertebrae -- rupture and press on nerve roots, the pain that radiates from the back and down the legs can be excruciating and disabling. For many the only treatment is surgical removal of part of the blown disk, a major operation called a laminectomy that requires general anesthesia...
...even if they seek help, many addicts find that the waiting time for drug-treatment centers can be as long as ten months. Those alcoholics and drug users who successfully break their addiction all too often find that staying clean is impossible in an environment of despair. Without adequate housing and a chance for steady work, advocates for the homeless insist, the cycle of addiction and dependence will not be broken. "If I had my own way," says Cynthia Reynolds-Cain, who runs Detroit Health Care for the Homeless, "I would like to see those who want to be employed...
...results. Delaware's attorney general recently forced the Nemours Foundation to drop its policy of transferring out seropositive patients from its Wilmington hospital. Municipalities have also been using their antidiscrimination ordinances. In New York City last March, an administrative judge awarded $26,647 to a man who was refused treatment by his longtime dental clinic. Some states, including California, Florida, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, have laws restricting the use of AIDS tests as an employee-screening device and directing that lab results be kept confidential. Last week New York joined the list by completing action on its version of a confidentiality...
...medical crisis comes of legal age as the growing number of people tarnished by the AIDS antibody test seek fair treatment...
...Botha. In reply to a worried letter from the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Botha assured him, "We are even more concerned and do wish Mr. Mandela a speedy recovery." Botha added that the patient had said he was satisfied with the treatment he was receiving and had not asked to be examined by outside doctors, as Chikane and Mandela's wife Winnie had requested...