Word: clinics
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Although abortions would remain legal, therefore, they would be increasingly difficult to obtain, particularly for poorer women, who cannot afford the costs of a private hospital or clinic, and do not receive proper information about abortion as an alternative to bearing a child...
...ophthalmologists -- medical doctors who specialize in eye care -- remain wary of vision therapy. "There's a conceptual fogginess to the whole thing," declares ophthalmologist George Beauchamp of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, "and the treatments are fuzzy and ill-defined." Although optometrists point to hundreds of research reports that they say validate the training, most ophthalmologists dismiss the studies as anecdotal. "Bring me one study controlled for bias on the part of the practitioner and the person," says Dr. Paul Vinger of Harvard University, a vision consultant to the U.S. Olympic Committee. "Prove it, then promote...
...helped slow down the march of the disease among some groups. Gay communities around the world have made "safe sex" the watchword, and the use of condoms is up -- with dramatic results. From 1983 through 1985 in West Berlin, one-fourth of the homosexuals and bisexuals at a single clinic tested positive for the virus. In 1988 the figure had dropped below 10%. In San Francisco up to 5,000 people first tested positive for the virus in 1981; last year the number of newly discovered infections was down to about 100. Asserts Andrew Moss, an epidemiologist at the University...
After completing their medical-history forms, patients at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Ill., are asked an unusual question: Would they be willing to write a letter thanking the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices for the right to have an abortion? Few refuse. Says Lori, 30, a businesswoman who terminated her pregnancy there earlier this month: "It really makes me mad that they are trying to outlaw...
...handle children. Says pediatrician Martin Baren of Orange, Calif.: "Kids get diagnosed with this when the problem is something else, like a language or learning disability." Or they may be simply rambunctious. A recent study revealed that of 200 children brought to the University of Chicago's ADHD clinic, 40% did not suffer from hyperactivity...