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...courts are far from perfect, says John Rabun of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But they're not as bad as Faye claims. And turning children into fugitives, ripping them away from friends and family and home, can be "a cure worse than the ailment." In several of Faye's cases, mothers have been found, prosecuted and jailed, creating horrible new problems for the children...
FAMILY SKELETONS More evidence that if your mother has osteoporosis, you may be at risk for it: researchers have found a mutation in a gene that codes for collagen (the tough fibrous protein in skin and bone), which could predispose women to the bone-weakening ailment...
...popping Viagra won't grow hair on your palms. But your childhood priest may have been right about another sex-related ailment. The American Academy of Ophthalmology says that the wildly popular potency pill may cause "retinal dysfunction and affect the way we see for a number of hours" -- including giving the world a "bluish tinge," spokesman Dr. Michael F. Marmor said in a statement Monday...
Stewart denies the accusation. But police have sketched a ghoulish scenario supported by witnesses. On Feb. 6, 1992, Stewart, a medical worker, smuggled a syringe filled with infected blood into the hospital where his son, at the time 11 months old, was being treated for a respiratory ailment, police say. He then allegedly injected the boy with the substance. For years the boy was in and out of hospitals, doctors unable to determine the cause of his illnesses. Then, in May 1996, the boy, who does not belong to any high-risk groups, was found to have full-blown AIDS...
Since we at Dartboard blew the cover on that ailment affecting many Harvard students, laundry guilt, we have been inundated with phone calls from people suffering from a different, unique form of the condition. These people who have suffered in silence must now be accepted, for they too have a very difficult problem...