Word: treatments
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...instance - may have simply been more health-conscious overall and therefore less likely to die, which could have confounded the study's results. Only a randomized and controlled trial in which patients are arbitrarily assigned either to initiate or defer therapy could determine any real benefit of early treatment...
...Still, Fauci acknowledges that the sheer size of Kitahata's study gives its findings some weight. She presented the preliminary data to a government panel on HIV-treatment guidelines in February, and the results have since gotten HIV experts talking about whether waiting to begin treatment until the current threshold of 350 cells is reached is too late to improve HIV patients' survival...
...sense, he is absolutely right. Season 2 of HBO's In Treatment remains TV's most satisfyingly cerebral drama simply by talking, over and over, about age-old woes: family, regret, sex, mortality. And Paul's patients echo the four he treated last season: a woman with whom he has a personal history, a confrontational control freak, a troubled student with a secret and a bitterly fighting married couple. But like a successful patient, the show has learned and grown, becoming more reliably compelling...
...Treatment (based closely on the Israeli Be'Tipul) sounds like a lot of talk and no action. Each of the five weekly installments is almost entirely dialogue between Paul and his patients or Paul and Gina. (Two sessions air Sundays at 9 p.m. E.T., three on Mondays at 9 p.m. E.T.) But the talk is the action. There are slashes and parries and feints within feints; the patients circle to guard secrets or act out to test Paul's boundaries...
Season 1 was gripping, but it raised the question of whether In Treatment could start again from scratch. That doesn't seem to be a problem. It's like a police procedural of the mind; if there are a million ways for CSI to solve murders, surely there are dozens of ways for Paul to follow dark tunnels in search of life's imponderables. It's a crazy world out there. It could keep Paul Weston busy for a long, long time...