Word: treatment
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There are two primary components to Graves' Disease--hyperthyroidism and opthalmopathy. In my case, I have yet to develop the latter, a pronounced bulging of the eyeballs. Hopefully preventive treatment will keep this aspect of the disease from developing. I do, however, suffer from hyperthyroidism, and its mysterious effects were what triggered my initial visit to a doctor...
...three were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the two less injured researchers were treated and released within an hour. The more seriously injured man went home after a few hours of treatment and observation...
...treatment was no big surprise to those familiar with the kid gloves the Army uses to handle its top officers, under a system designed to insulate them from the grilling routinely faced by their subordinates. Unlike personnel decisions for the other 485,000 people in the Army, those involving the service's 307 generals are dealt with by a separate general officer management office under Reimer's purview...
...greatly with the normal course of coital events. An even greater advantage, or at least a more naturalistic one: unlike the injectable drugs, which when efficacious produce an erection regardless of context (famously proved by Dr. Giles Brindley, a leading British impotence researcher, who once demonstrated a successful experimental treatment by dropping his trousers in front of hundreds of astonished colleagues at a conference), Viagra merely paves the way for the possibility of arousal. Erections must still be achieved the old-fashioned way, whether through desire, attraction, physical stimulation, the guilty thrill of an illicit affair, page...
...past decade there have been great advances in the treatment of impotence, which is now seen by most therapists, in most cases, as a physiological rather than a psychological problem, rejecting the medical establishment's long-held view. The word impotence itself, like "frigidity" for women, is considered suspect in many circles; the more politically correct--or at least clinical--term is erectile dysfunction, or ED, as it is commonly abbreviated. Inspired by a 1992 National Institutes of Health Conference and landmark 1994 study on the problem, the diagnosis has been defined more broadly, from the rather strict criterion...