Word: treatments
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...Hailey, by acclamation the champion can picker in Palm Beach County, Fla. In twelve years he has collected 944,000 cans and sold them for $10,000. Lately he has reined himself in; at 91 he no longer needs as much exercise as a doctor recommended in 1975 for treatment of a heart ailment...
Daniloff, who will study American and Soviet press treatment of world crises at the Kennedy School, will be a fellow at the Barone Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy. Marvin Kalb, director of the center, announced yesterday...
...Janeiro, where with an international group of physicians he had spent ten days treating six badly irradiated victims of a bizarre accident in Brazil with an experimental drug called GM-CSF. "When it comes to these disasters," concluded Gale, who will soon return to Rio, "all the handbooks on treatment will have to be rewritten...
Using special equipment flown in from the U.S., the doctors injected GM-CSF into each patient's vena cava, the central vein that leads to the heart. Within 48 to 72 hours, the white blood cell count increased in five of the six patients, but Leide died before the treatment could be evaluated. Within a week four of the six patients had died, overwhelmed by pneumonia, blood poisoning and hemorrhaging. But the other two seem to be recovering. "I can't be certain that they would have died if they had not got the treatment," Gale says. "But they...
Although most attention focused on Gorbachev's treatment of the past, he also included some significant remarks about the present. Announcing a potentially dramatic shift in Moscow's relations with its East bloc satellites, Gorbachev declared that "all ((Communist)) parties are completely and irreversibly independent." He stressed this point again in an address to foreign delegates two days later, renouncing the "arrogance of omniscience" that he said had formerly governed Moscow's ties with its Communist allies. Gorbachev's statements appeared to rescind the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, proposing intervention in defense of socialist regimes, that was used to justify...