If a substance produces certain debilitating symptoms in a healthy person, he reasoned, then a small dose could be used to treat the same symptoms in an ill patient.
Soldiers who had survived blasts, but had no head injury whatever, came to the hospital complaining of typical post-concussive symptoms, including dizziness, difficulty in decision .
Finally his lips begin to twitch violently (the most common symptom); he goes into convulsions and falls unconscious.
Chronic Ailment This time, treating Highmark and UPMC's cranial swelling may be tougher by Chris Potter After a year-long remission, Western Pennsylvania is due for a relapse of Health Care Derangement Syndrome, thanks to Highmark's acquisition of the Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System (WPAHS). The state's Insurance Department approved that deal this spring, and one symptom — nausea-inducing ...
July 3, 2013 - Pittsburgh City Paper
Guest: Seattle’s taxi rules are broken The proliferation of services such as UberX, Sidecar and Lyft are the symptom of a very broken taxi-regulatory system, writes guest columnist Samatar Guled.
July 3, 2013 - Seattle Times
Are You A Cyberchondriac? A headache, a sore throat, maybe even a fever are pretty common. Before calling the doctor many of us turn to the internet for our own symptom shopping, trying to figure out what's wrong.
July 3, 2013 - KWTV News9
Barack Obama in TIME In the end, this is a symptom of a larger problem - a bubble and bust economy that valued reckless speculation over responsibility and hard work,President Obama said in a statement. "That is what we must ultimately repair to build a...
John McCain in MiamiHerald.com That has to end, McCain said, because "the constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn't a cause, it's a symptom."
Robert Gates in GovExec.com The Taiwan fiasco, which was only discovered in March, was merely a "symptom of a degradation of the authority, standards of excellence and technical competence" of the country's intercontinental ballistic missile inventory, Gates said during a...