Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study shows that radiation treatments can help stem the progress of "wet" macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. Vision was stabilized for at least a year in 60% of patients who received the radiation. One big advantage: it can be used on patients for whom laser surgery, the standard treatment, doesn't work...
Sullivan's latest novel, Love Undetectable, is born from this revolution in AIDS treatment. Sullivan tells us of his renaissance--his tacit preparation for death, then his difficult readjustment to life. Sullivan makes it clear that along with the euphoria that followed the realization that he was going to live came a surprising anticlimax. It seemed that life was most precious when it was about to end. As his viral load of AIDS plummeted, Sullivan's relief was countered by an unexpected banality. And so, Love Undetectable is divided into three essays that explore the spectrum of thoughts that germinated...
...Donnell's touch is gentle. He does not allow his narrative to slide into cliches, a balancing act hard to achieve when commenting on commericalized topics. This is perhaps most evident in his treatment of Christmas, a holiday so over-wrought with symbolism that any statement can seem trite. O'Donnell couples Tad's cynicism and mocking attitude with an underlying sense of hope and faith in the holiday. Tad is aware of the fake forms Christmas can take on; upon walking into his brother and sister-in-law's showcase of a home, he observes that "the impersonally tasteful...
...Youville hospital at 1575 Cambridge St. reported that an unknown person removed $100, a Sony CD player and a radio from a conference room between 6:20 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. on Dec. 5. At the time of the theft, the owner of the items was undergoing treatment in the hospital...
...million. But now Abu Nidal, who had been living in Libya, has cancer, and intelligence officials say his underlings had been squabbling over who will control the estate after he dies. It's suspected that one tipped off Egyptian authorities when Abu Nidal slipped into Cairo last July for treatment, to get an earlier shot at the loot...