Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Dr. Thomas Royer, chief medical officer of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, doesn't normally handle admissions, he made an exception when a call came in from Dr. Connie Mariano, who is Bill Clinton's personal physician. It wasn't the President who needed treatment but someone who would soon be getting just as much attention: Wei Jingsheng, China's most renowned dissident. The White House had been tipped off that Wei, who had spent most of the past 18 years in prison, would soon be released, and the Administration was helping make arrangements to whisk him away...
...hospital spokeswoman kept the crowds of reporters at bay, doctors gave the 47-year-old exile a thorough going-over. He was suffering from high blood pressure, and he needed glasses, but otherwise he was remarkably healthy for someone incarcerated so long in a country not noted for humane treatment of prisoners...
Aside from the antilabor drugs, Bobbi had no special medical intervention; her treatment consisted mostly of downing vitamins, minerals and high-protein nutritional supplements. And while the risk of miscarriage, high blood pressure or other complications was always present, she stayed healthy right up to and through the magic 28-week barrier. Finally, last Tuesday, in the middle of her 30th week, the contractions that had been kept under control by medicine increased to 10 an hour...
...perpetuating the human species. The first successful artificial insemination took place during the presidency of George Washington. And since 1978, when the world's first test-tube baby was born, researchers have assembled a battery of medicines and high-tech procedures that have utterly transformed the treatment of infertility. More than 33,000 babies have been born in the U.S. thanks to in-vitro (literally, "in glass") fertilization, or IVF--nearly 7,000 in 1994 alone, the most recent year for which numbers are available...
...generation of compounds, often called designer estrogens, promises to tip the balance in favor of treatment. Last week the experimental drug that Levin thinks she's taking, raloxifene, became the first of them to win endorsement from an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration. That's the initial step toward full-scale approval, and barring any complications, Eli Lilly could bring the drug to market in a matter of months...