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This is a deeply worrying situation. Why do the more senior, and one would imagine wiser, members of the Phoenix club feel that this is appropriate treatment of animals? Would they feel as comfortable treating a human child in this way? Presumably not. But stop and think for a moment why a child would never be treated in this fashion, whereas there is little concern about the well-being of chickens. Perhaps the Phoenix club seniors feel that chickens are like the caricatures in a Gary Larson cartoon--silly beasts doing silly things. If so, why not do what...
These numbers will rise dramatically over the next few years, both because the baby-boom generation is aging and because the elderly are living longer. Unfortunately, the standard treatment for arthritis is the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS, a group that includes aspirin and ibuprofen. Too often these medicines have unacceptable side effects, including internal bleeding and ulcers...
Another new drug, called Remicade, approved just a few weeks ago by the FDA, is also the focus of a JAMA report. A medication called methotrexate has long been the treatment of choice for rheumatoid arthritis. It is not an NSAID, so it doesn't cause ulcers--but for many patients it stops working after a while. More than half the people who took Remicade along with methotrexate had at least a 20% reduction in arthritis symptoms, according to the study...
...wondering if they really needed quite so much information about the presidential candidate. Public airing of certain tidbits, like the fact that the senator from Arizona uses a nasal spray for his seasonal hay fever, or that he had a herpetic lesion on his genitals (which disappeared without treatment!) may help to dissipate fears of lingering problems brought on by his ordeal as a POW - in part because no one who would tell the general public about herpetic lesions can be hiding very much. But even if the other candidates follow suit, offering their own medical, financial and psychological reports...
...Like with virtually any mental or emotional problem students could suffer, Harvard offers a variety of options for treatment...