Study Finds Drops Are Best Treatment for Ear Tube-Related Dripping
“No previous study assessed the actual need to treat these children,” said Dr. Thijs M.A. van Dongen, the lead author of the study and an epidemiologist at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. In a six-month follow-up, the study found …
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Scripps opens first proton treatment center for cancer patients
At the center, patients will undergo radiation treatments in which pencil-sized proton beams are used to attack tumors more precisely than other methods can, with the goal of preventing damage to healthy tissue around the tumors, according to Scripps …
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Study Finds Drops Are Best Treatment for Ear Tube-Related Dripping
For children with ear tubes, topical antibiotic drops treat the leaky discharge caused by an ear infection much more effectively than oral antibiotics or observation, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday …
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Traveling From Ocean to Ocean Across South America
This was the only bus that advertised start-to-finish service on the recently completed Interoceanic Highway, the first paved route to fully cross the big green heart of South America. … David Guttenfelder/Associated Press, for The New York Times …
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Gov. Hickenlooper: Colorado marijuana market exceeds tax hopes
Economic forecasters in Olympia predicted that the state's new legal recreational marijuana market will bring nearly $ 190 million to state coffers over four years starting in mid-2015. Washington state sets budgets biennially. In Colorado, Hickenlooper …
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His Death, Their Lives
In the first hours and days that followed Philip Seymour Hoffman's death from an apparent overdose of heroin, there was an outpouring of grief on Facebook, on Twitter and in columns by recovering addicts and alcoholics like the journalist Seth Mnookin …
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China's Web Junkies
The Internet Addiction Treatment Center, in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, was established in 2004. It was one of the first of its kind – and there are now hundreds of treatment programs throughout China and South Korea. (The first inpatient Internet …
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Law is one way of forcing addicts into treatment
The judge orders her/him to a licensed inpatient substance abuse treatment facility, such as the Women's Addiction Treatment Center (WATC) facility in New Bedford, the Men's Addiction Treatment Center (MATC) in Brockton or another community treatment …
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On the Amend
Recently, my former partner received an “amends letter” from my young fling, who is now in a 12-step recovery program. … Does the fling's recovery trump my private life? … Many of us have witnessed the terrible price of addiction at close range …
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Loren Leslie Johnston, 63
Loren was extremely passionate about helping others in the treatment of addiction and was fondly nicknamed Yoda by his clients and colleagues. … Loren was a quiet, humble, and private man with a great sense of humor. … to sincerely express their …
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The DVD Wrapup
The rest of the story involves both of the precisely-drawn sisters' search for recovery. If there's one character with …. Since being released from San Quentin and cleaning up from a drug addiction, Trejo's name has been attached to some 270 movies …
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Treating China's Internet addicts
Treatment for Internet addiction is now available in the U.S. Last September, the country's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opened in Pennsylvania. The program features 10-day treatments beginning with a two-day "digital detox …
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The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
Caption from LIFE. "The tears that rolled down Chad Harris's cheeks were partly a symptom of withdrawal: he hadn't had a fix in 14 hours. But he was also crying out of fear that he wouldn't be accepted into the drug treatment program at California's …
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Grants Go A Long Way When It Comes To Addiction Treatment
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 21, 2014 — /PRNewswire/ — In its second year as a non-profit organization, Runwell: The Linda Quirk Foundation awarded 10 grants to addiction treatment programs in the U.S. and abroad. Runwell's grant program supports …
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Treatment for Addiction
The most effective treatment for opioid addiction entails the use of medications, specifically, methadone or buprenorphine. While New York City has many methadone programs and buprenorphine prescribers, medication-assisted treatment remains …
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