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...stranger to exotic diseases, including river blindness and sleeping sickness. Missionaries first encountered nodding disease in 1997, but locals say it's been around since the '80s. Its spread was likely helped by the 20-year-old civil war; perhaps when Sudanese refugees with no immunity contracted the ailment. Nodding disease has so far been found only in a small area, where a 2002 survey...
After that bombshell, doctors and their female patients had a lot of questions. If hormones don't prevent heart disease, what does? Is the ailment fundamentally different in men and women? If not, why do their symptoms seem to differ? And why do treatments such as bypass surgery and angioplasty, which work so well for men, often fail for women? In some ways, says Dr. Sharonne Hayes of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., "the findings have allowed us appropriately, and perhaps belatedly, to refocus our efforts...
...that SARS had penetrated their borders. Hong Kong's response looks positively proactive compared with that of China, where the disease first appeared and which still has the most cases by far, at 1,220. For months, national and provincial authorities kept a lid on publicity surrounding the mystery ailment and refused to share patient information with international health organizations...
Tragically, most developing nations fail to realize that these slums are not so much their biggest ailment, as their biggest opportunity. The key to solving global poverty is not encoded in complex econometrics and it does not fit the lock on Uncle Sam’s vault—it is found in the slums and rural farms of the developing world, where economists and policymakers fear to tread...
...different sort of complaint came from neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler, whose scientific sleuthing among clusters of families around Venezuela?s Lake Maracaibo afflicted with Huntington?s disease paved the way for the identification of the gene for the fatal ailment and a test for its detection. She noted that treatment for the disease is no better now that it was when her mother died of it in 1978. That?s at least partly because, she said, drug companies aren?t interested in developing ?orphan drugs? for diseases with a relatively low incidence of occurrence. Thus, without the prospect of a cure...