Word: trialing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little more for him. Now 62 and retired, he's taking part in a stem-cell clinical trial at the London Chest Hospital. "If it works, it's probably the only treatment for somebody like myself," he says. In the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory, cardiologist Anthony Mathur uses a probe to map the electrical activity in Johnson's heart. Mathur finds 75% of it damaged, the consequence of earlier undetected heart attacks. Then he takes 10 syringes filled with either blood serum containing stem cells from Johnson's own bone marrow or just blood serum - as part...
Saddam Hussein may be living in a cell, but he still gets to try his hand at brinksmanship. Tuesday, he tried to go nuclear, getting himself ejected for the third time in as many sessions of the Anfal trial - and prompting all six of his fellow defendants to follow suit. He seems to have found his newest weapon. After all, what's a trial without defendants...
...DISMISSED. Against Jacob Zuma, 64, former Deputy President of South Africa; after a High Court judge threw out corruption charges against him stemming from an arms deal in the 1990s; in Pietermaritzburg. The dismissal clears the way for Zuma, who earlier this year was acquitted of rape after a trial in which he admitted having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman, to run for the presidency when Thabo Mbeki steps down...
...American businessman who was once a key Nazarbayev adviser, with funneling $78 million in bribes from oil companies to Kazakhstan's top leaders. Kazakhstan has flatly denied that its officials have done anything wrong, and Giffen has denied the charges against him. His case is scheduled to go to trial in January. The temptations of oil money make political reform all the more imperative. There are some promising signs. The 2005 U.N. Development Program Fact Sheet praised Kazakhstan as "thus far the only country in the region that has begun a civil-service reform program." In Astana, Kuat Akizhanov...
Doctors were as hard-pressed to treat phantom pain as they were to explain it. They resorted to trial and error, using remedies originally intended for other ailments that seemed to relieve nerve pain. I had a sampling on my nightstand: pills to combat seizures and depression, lozenges for bronchitis, allergy nasal spray, arthritis cream, medicated patches for shingles and an electro-stimulation device. It was hard to tell if any of them worked. The crushing, stabbing pain in my right hand flared and subsided--but never went away. Doctors said it might last a month, a year...