Word: treatment
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There is also some argument about the age that treatment should begin. Nearly half a million prescriptions were written for controlled substances like Ritalin in 1995 for children between ages 3 and 6. "Kids ages 4 to 5 are just as impaired as older children, so there is no reason not to treat them," says William Pelham Jr., director of clinical training in the department of psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He adds, however, that before a physician treats such a young child with stimulants, he should begin by suggesting techniques parents...
...this is where treatment too often falls apart. Even doctors who have seen Ritalin's positive, sometimes miraculous effects warn that the drug is no substitute for better schools, creative teaching and parents' spending more time with their kids. Unless a child acquires coping skills, the benefits of medication are gone as soon as it wears off. "You can't just give medicine and fail to teach," says Stephen Hinshaw, director of the clinical psychology training program at the University of California, Berkeley. Drug treatment may set the stage, but studies suggest that children need constant reinforcement to help them...
...find women with good ideas too attractive. An attractive woman with good ideas has an advantage over a less attractive woman with the same ideas in today's society, just as an attractive man does. While this is superficial, and to be avoided, it is not "the Barbie treatment," as Heller describes it. LONNE A. JAFFE...
...explosion sprayed the chemical and the toluene in which it had been stored in the face of the researcher who handled the bottle. The chemical also touched the clothing of the other two researchers. All three were rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital, where they received treatment for minor injuries...
When lasers were first used for the treatment in the mid-'80s, researchers believed the channels remained open. Apparently not. It is now thought that the drilling provokes new blood-vessel growth where the laser burns a hole. (Others suggest the angina may be eased simply because the laser numbs pain-sensing nerves of the heart.) Scar tissue from the laser holes seems minimal...