Word: treatments
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...other hand, every new term, however inelegant, is given the treatment that long ago distinguished the OED from all competitors. This dictionary does not merely give etymologies, pronunciations and definitions; it also provides a word's earliest known appearance in print and uses quotations to illustrate the context in which the word has been used and all shifts of meaning to which it has been subjected. Hence AIDS (another lamentable addition to the lexicon) is defined and then traced back to its presumptive print debut, in the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report of Sept...
...number of articles written by The Crimson over the past few years have borne the scars of inaccurate, and indeed, unskillful treatment of issues pertaining to the minority community. Pieces both this year and last year on Black History Month and an offensive article on minorities written two years ago by the Undergraduate Council President, can be included among their ranks...
...controversial study has emerged to challenge this conventional treatment. Published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, it concludes that immediate angiography and angioplasty, both costly and somewhat risky techniques, are unnecessary in most heart-attack cases. The 50-hospital study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and known as TIMI II (for thrombolysis in myocardial infarction phase II trial), involved 3,262 patients who had suffered apparent heart attacks. Within four hours of their attacks, all patients received a powerful clot dissolver, known as TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), along with heparin and aspirin to inhibit blood...
...well as anyone with a history of bypass surgery, heart-valve replacement, cerebrovascular disease, or other serious illness. "These were low-risk people, and it's a bad rap for angioplasty," he complained. "In fact, direct angioplasty alone, with no clot-dissolving drugs, is probably the single most effective treatment for acute heart attack...
Nonetheless, the trial has enormous implications for the routine care of heart-attack patients. Community hospitals with well-equipped coronary-care units, for example, could offer the relatively simple drug treatment and send . patients in real need of angioplasty or bypass to specialized centers. If cardiologists adopt TIMI II's conservative strategy, the estimated financial savings could total $200 million a year...