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...Association, are studying the 900 idea, but they have yet to come to any conclusions about its usefulness or safety. For now, it seems, patients would be wise to think carefully before dialing -- and get a stopwatch. At $3 a minute, or $180 an hour, the bill itself could trigger cardiac symptoms too grave for any phone doctor to resolve...
...premise is a double what-if. What if sophisticated computers conspired to trigger Armageddon (you know when) and in the process created a humanoid terminator (you know who) to patrol the nuked-out landscape? Then again, what if a renegade from the future could vault back in time to keep the killer computers from being invented...
...water," says Dr. Lewis Braverman, chief of endocrinology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Lithium decreases the thyroid's output instead of increasing it. As for iodine, a person would have to consume at least 10 to 50 times the normal daily dosage in order to trigger hyperthyroidism. "It's sort of a feeding frenzy," says Dr. Charles Christian, physician in chief at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. "All the attention is pressuring the people taking care of the President to prove that something hasn't been missed...
...persist much longer. "We're at a point where we know when a child would be at a 50 to 100 times greater risk of getting a long list of autoimmune diseases," says Stanford neurologist Lawrence Steinman. "For several diseases we know the bacteria or viruses that can trigger the illness in people with an underlying genetic susceptibility." Improved treatments, reflecting this new knowledge, are beginning to emerge from...
...subtle threat of legal intervention. The Women and Infants Clinic program at Boston City Hospital, for instance, takes this approach to helping addicted mothers. Women in the program must submit to random urine tests each week, and they are told that two unexplained absences in a row will trigger an immediate investigation for child neglect...