Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disease, with some symptoms that persist for many months. But in a few cases, perhaps three out of a thousand, it is a fulminating infection that throws the victim into a coma and may cause death within a few days. Only in the past four years has an effective treatment for this form of hepatitis been developed; one man who is walking proof of its value is Peace Corps Volunteer John M. Bayne...
...Charles Trey, a South African-born research physician now at Harvard. Trey managed to get to Bombay in two days. He estimated that 90% of young Bayne's liver had been knocked out and gave him only a 10% chance of survival. Even that depended on the treatment that Trey had devised, in which the patient has a series of exchange transfusions. Much of his blood is drained out and replaced, removing the poisonous wastes from his body and giving the liver a chance to rest and regenerate...
...penny less. The garbagemen, by contrast, have accepted their contract. Some other city unions urged the Mayor to hold tight, saying they would have to reopen their contracts if the police received an added sweetener. And 40,000 more public service employees threatened to strike for equal treatment when their contracts expire in December...
...Hendrick for a checkup, he trots in and prattles as fluently as the average tot of his age. If he still had all his brain, Michael would be paralyzed on his left side, walking lamely if at all, not talking, and suffering daily or more frequent seizures despite drug treatment...
...orthodoxy which insists on treating all plays of a given place and period alike, whose loyalty is to a set of rules empirically drawn from history rather than to the will of an author as unfolded in his work. Above and beyond this considerable accomplishment, Mayer's modern-dress treatment of Euripedes' classic is all-told the most intoxicating thing launched these last few years on a Boston stage...