Word: treatment
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...survey also identified a number of areas of strength, with at least 70 percent of respondents indicating satisfaction with UHS physicians, UHS nurse practitioners and their treatment plans. Seventy-six percent of students also rated UHS' convenience "good" or better...
Smith suffered a broken leg several years ago after being hit by a car on Memorial Drive. When seeking treatment at UHS that night, he said he was told he was fine, and was advised to return home and take Tylenol for the pain...
...treatment of cancer," he said...
Traditional cancer therapies--including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy--overlook the fact that cancer, a derangement of the genome, has a strong tendency to mutate and become insensitive to certain treatment agents...
...lice becoming hardier? According to TIME medical reporter Janice Horowitz, the Harvard study results revealed a correlation between over-treatment and resistance. "The researchers looked at kids in two American cities, Boise and Boston, and compared them with kids with lice in Borneo. In Borneo, where few or no pesticides are used, lice were killed very quickly by an application of permethrin. In Boise and Boston, the lice were far more resistant to the pesticide, having been exposed to the chemicals before." Horowitz notes that an increased dose of the lice-killer in Borneo destroyed the parasites faster, whereas...