Word: treatments
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Like the food in the dining halls, health care inspires gripes and jokes at summer camps and on college campuses alike. But some students say getting adequate treatment at University Heath Services (UHS) is a serious cause for concern...
According to UHS officials, Harvard pools this money into a budget, from which money is withdrawn to finance all students' medical treatment at UHS facilities. Within this budget, money is allotted to finance abortions for students seeking to terminate a pregnancy...
...Boland] for the first time one month ago and realized that it wasn't responding to treatment," Clemente said. "[Last week] we made the decision to finally get it fixed...
Frustrated with their intransigence, Clinton finally pulled out a trump card: a badly weakened King Hussein of Jordan, in the U.S. for treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Gaunt and hairless, the King lectured the leaders and their aides. "You can't afford for this to fail," he said. "You owe this to your people, to your children, to future generations." For an hour afterward, his eloquence lifted the mood. When it waned, Clinton tried his own stagecraft. Patient and receptive so far, the President stormed out of the room just after midnight, looking at no one. "That was a powerful...
From a physician's standpoint, Duke epitomizes current U.S. health-care philosophy: compassion and heroism coupled with financial altruism. But curing medical problems doesn't hinge on the extent of the treatment; it depends on the extent of the disease. Prevention doesn't simply mean administering vitamins to the young; it requires eliminating environmental factors conducive to disease, such as smoking, drugs, improper diet and pollution. Society has become inured to its harmful behavior. This results in the overutilization of medical resources and ever growing expenses, with doctors and hospitals serving as convenient scapegoats. DONALD H. RUDICK, M.D. St. Marys...