Word: treatment
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...testimony from Harvard employees currently on display in the Science Center reminded me of this simple lesson from that summer. I was appalled by the treatment by students that one of the interviewees describes. One also provided evidence that the arrogance only grows with time, citing the frequency with which returning grads ask, "Do you know...
Beyond the concerns that the bill would send amessage of inequality, gay rights advocates areconcerned with getting the legal rights that gowith marriage. These include hospital visitation,spousal consent for medical treatment, taxbenefits, inheritance, pension benefits, andfamily medical leave...
...challenge, Josephson suggested a randomized double-blind test. Park, a longtime critic of homeopathy, was delighted to accept and is now close to agreeing with Josephson on a protocol. In one proposal, samples of water, some of which have been given the Benveniste treatment, would be examined by the biologist himself, who would then attempt to identify which, if any, had been rendered homeopathic. Yet Benveniste seems hesitant. Some "variables," as he puts it, including financing, remain to be discussed...
...Paxil and its manufacturer, SmithKline Beecham, are upping the ante. If the FDA agrees, and it probably will, SmithKline will soon be pushing Paxil as the first-ever formally sanctioned treatment for, of all things, shyness. This isn't as bizarre as it sounds. FDA approval would actually be for the treatment of "acute social phobia," a pathological form of shyness that's more akin to panic. For doctors, at least, it's no surprise that phobia and depression might be treated with the same drugs. "The big secret," says Dr. Brian Doyle, director of the anxiety disorders program...
Still, once a firm finds a new use for a drug, it makes sense to get formal approval. That's the only way the company can legally start pushing the treatment in ads and in marketing pitches to physicians. Paxil may be the latest example of an SSRI expanding its franchise. But it's not the first, and it won't be the last...