Word: treatment
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...Today, 25 years and many failed attempts later, an AIDS vaccine seems as elusive as ever. New HIV infections still greatly outpace the number of people being brought onto antiretroviral treatment, with some 2.5 million new HIV cases worldwide in 2007, including nearly half a million children. That same year, more than 2 million people died of AIDS. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...really know what’s going on,” he said. “They’re pressuring everyone out and I’m the only one left.” Iannacone, who has worked in the barber shop for 30 years, called the treatment he has received from Harvard “very cold.” He said that he has been told to leave by January 2010, two years before the termination of his five-year lease. While business has not been suffering too much from the financial crisis, a move could affect...
...public roundtables followed by closed-door, member-to-member sessions on the delivery system - public or private, or some combination of the two - in which individual members can weigh in with their own plans and ideas. Other issues of coverage, including cost containment, prevention and wellness, will see similar treatment, aides say. The HELP Committee will have its own schedule on the prevention and wellness provisions as well as the parts of the bill involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (known as ERISA), which regulates employer-offered health-insurance plans. Rockefeller will first hold his own series of hearings...
...Rockefeller of West Virginia and Orrin Hatch of Utah, the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care. In recent months Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a top HELP Committee Democrat, was added as Kennedy's understudy as the Massachusetts Democrat sought treatment for brain cancer. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota and his GOP counterpart Judd Gregg of New Hampshire were also added after President Obama included his $634 billion outline for health-care reform in his 2010 budget request. Other Senators from the Democratic leadership and the HELP...
...important not only because it is wildly ambitious but also because mental-health professionals around the world have adopted its classification system. In the U.S., it is virtually impossible to get reimbursed by an insurance company for treatment unless a mental-health professional identifies your condition by a DSM code number. (The number for mathematics disorder, if you were wondering, is 315.1. The code for Tourette's syndrome is 307.23; the code for sexual sadism is 302.84. As I said, the DSM tries to cover everything.) (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...