Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to a Catholic women's organization, the Grail, and volunteered for overseas mission work. Now she has no time to be bored. In 3½ years her Minh Quy hospital has admitted 12,000 different patients, and no one has counted the outpatients who show up for treatment during clinic hours. The Viet Cong give Dr. Smith no direct trouble, probably because the Montagnards have formed a living shield around the woman they now call Ya Pagang Tih-"Big Grandmother of All Medicine...
...surgeon is one of the least talked-about but most advertised of human conditions: hemorrhoids, or piles. Last week the Federal Trade Commission decided that some clear talk was needed not only about hemorrhoids, but about the advertising claims made by manufacturers of suppositories and ointments for their treatment. These preparations, said the FTC, "at best only afford temporary relief of minor itching . . . and some types of pain." So it ordered the companies "to stop falsely advertising them as cures...
Sometimes, but seldom, a hemorrhoid heals itself through the development of a blood clot, which shuts down the vein. Surgery in moderately severe cases is minor and like a treatment for varicose veins of the leg: a chemical is injected to harden the vein's walls and make it close down. In more severe cases, part of the vein and surrounding tissues must be cut out. Operations used to be dreaded because of infections and slow healing. Now they are safer, thanks to antibiotics, and healing is quicker...
Speaking "in comment, not in criticism," Dr. Milford Rouse, incoming AMA chief, said that citizens have no right to expect the government to provide them with medical treatment...
McIntosh has said publicly that he regards the strikers' demand that off-campus political organizations be given the same kind of treatment accorded government agencies as "irrelevant." What is relevant, McIntosh thinks, is the creation of a student organization -- something more powerful than the ASUC certainly -- that will have the authority to determine policies on political activity...