Word: treatments
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...theory, abortion is not given special treatment. If a young medical student feels a little squeamish learning about open heart surgery, he or she can speak to an advisor and be excused from class. It seems implausible that someone can graduate from Harvard Medical School skipping a variety of classes based on different moral, ethical, religious objections...
Doctors in Sydney recruited 116 patients who had not responded well to Western treatments. They divided them into three groups and sent each group to a Chinese herbalist, who wrote each patient an individualized prescription based on his or her complaints. Each prescription was then filled at a different location, where patients were randomly given pills that contained either a placebo of flavored compounds that tasted like herbs but had no medicinal effects, a standardized extract of 20 herbs designed to support bowel function in general, or the individually prescribed herbs. After 16 weeks of treatment, the two groups that...
...last spring of the radioactive symptoms--is well along in its postgraduate phase. I share this with you (as they say in group) because the history of my heart's misadventures happens, luckily for me, to parallel the story of the late 20th century's medical advances in the treatment of heart disease. And because at the American Heart Association's meeting last week in Dallas, still more remarkable new treatments were auditioned. I have enjoyed, so far, an existential scissors graph: my heart gets worse; medicine gets better. (How long will this happy pattern last...
From here on the going gets dicier and, in terms of the future of heart treatment, more interesting. On the horizon, and closing fast, are experimental techniques--most immediately gene and laser therapies--that have the potential to make yesterday's miracles (bypasses and angioplasties) seem like rudimentary plumbing repairs. Remember: potential...
Roberto Calasso resists this temptation to "exoticise" or trivialize the stories through humor with triumphant results. Don't misunderstand--there is plenty of humor, horror and wonder about the stories is Calasso's writing; but these feelings spring from Calasso's treatment of the stories as texts to learn from, not to snicker pre-pubescently at. Even more interesting is his incorporation of Western texts and ideas into a decidedly Eastern way of thinking. Thus Proust becomes a Vedic prayer-chant master; the great creator-spirit Prajapat faces Kafka-esque dilemmas that lead him to be compared to The Trial...