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Neglected Ailment. The Wolf-Nalbandian tests do not distinguish between those who merely carry the sickle-cell trait and those actually affected by the disease. But they do provide a fast, inexpensive method of finding individuals who should get further attention. In an experimental program at Fort Knox, Ky., doctors tested 7,000 black soldiers, 94 of whom were found to carry hemoglobin S. Two of these soldiers actually had sickle-cell anemia...
...worldwide ailment, cross-eyedness affects an estimated one to two per cent of all children in some form...
...legacies are more lethal than Tay-Sachs disease, a rare ailment that occurs almost exclusively among Jews of Eastern European ancestry. Caused by an inherited enzyme deficiency, the disease begins to affect infants at about six months of age, causes brain deterioration, and usually kills the patient before his fifth birthday. Science has yet to discover either a cure or a treatment. But doctors at Baltimore's John F. Kennedy Institute believe that they can prevent it. In a unique experiment to bring genetics to the community, they are seeking to identify those who carry the deadly Tay-Sachs...
What tastes like ambrosia to one man, observed the ancients, may sit like ashes on the tongue of another. Now modern medicine has discovered that a single tongue can be just as unpredictable -if its unfortunate owner suffers from idiopathic hypogeusia.* The newly identified ailment, described by National Institutes of Health researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association, attacks the senses of taste and smell to the point that the patients may become unable to detect all but the strongest flavors or aromas. In severe cases, a victim's favorite food odors may become offensive...
...work out the communique. On Sunday, there was a final meeting and a farewell lunch. The Americans departed at 1 p.m. Kissinger's appearance reflected his success. When he returned from Peking, an alert observer might have noticed that the man who was supposedly suffering from a stomach ailment had put on five pounds. According to White House wits, Kissinger was so impressed by the meals in Peking that he jested: "A guest of the state must have starved to death 3,000 years ago and the Chinese are determined that it will not happen again...