Word: treatments
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Hoping for similar good fortune in the future is not the best way to fight the microbe. Until a drug treatment is available, the best answer is prevention, and several groups are taking action. Alfalfa seeds, which have been implicated in past E. coli outbreaks, are now being irradiated to kill bacteria, and last year the Food and Drug Administration gave the cattle industry the green light to treat meat the same way. The procedure is generally effective, but critics are uneasy, questioning whether it's ever a good idea to irradiate something consumers are intended to ingest...
...incident got Batt thinking: How could his small, 70-bed community hospital offer low-income patients a way to pay for the rising cost of health care? Could they trade their skills for medical treatment? After all, barter may have fallen on hard times, but it's an American tradition: for decades people exchanged services for goods, not dollars. A country doctor's fee might be a bushel of potatoes or a freshly baked...
...patients who suffer from the most common type of lung cancer, postoperative radiation therapy is often a routine part of treatment. But a study published last week urges re-evaluation of this practice, showing that radiation actually raises the relative risk of death 21% and that its effects are most detrimental for those in the early stages of the illness, pushing survival chances below...
...body's metabolism much as a thermostat controls the temperature in your house. But if you're female and 50 or older--or love someone who is--you need to consider whether the old thermostat is still working. Last week the American College of Physicians, a conservative arbiter of treatment standards, recommended a blood test for thyroid disorders at least once every five years for all women in this age group...
...epileptics, acute repetitive seizure episodes can be extremely dangerous or even fatal--and, until now, they often required a trip to the emergency room, causing hazardous delays in treatment. Now Diastat, a gel formation of the epilepsy medication diazepam, makes it possible for a family member to stop seizure episodes before they become harmful...