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...very heavy for me. I went through like two or three years where I just shut myself off and those were years where it was incredibly scary to be a gay man. We lived in the plague in San Francisco. We would see people dropping from this mysterious ailment. We had no idea how people got it, the process of the disease. It was frightening and all you wanted to do was just go and hide. You didn't want to come near it, or you didn't want to come near people. They were years of complete antisociability...
...once. So scientists use special enzymes to chop the chromosomes into small manageable pieces and pick out small identifiable stretches -- called markers -- on each segment. When researchers are searching for a disease gene, they look for a marker that is common to all people who suffer from that ailment. If one is found, then the defective gene is probably located somewhere near that marker. The problem is that although the gene hunters know where the marker is located on the chromosome, they don't necessarily know how close it lies to the suspect gene...
People who think they're coming down with the flu, especially those living in the Southwest, should beware: the aches, fevers and coughs could mean something far worse. A mysterious ailment emerged last spring in which flulike symptoms become life threatening as tiny blood vessels throughout the lungs begin leaking plasma. Gasping for breath, victims literally start to drown in their own body fluids. The outcome in 27 of the first 45 known cases of the illness has been a quick death...
...Little Rock, he reached Magaziner at a miniature-golf course near his home in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was relaxing with his children. He located Bruce Reed at Georgetown University Hospital, where his own health-care bill was rising while his wife was undergoing tests for a stomach ailment. He found Joshua Wiener, a Brookings Institution fellow, clipping hedges at his home in Washington. Wiener grabbed some of his kids' purple-dinosaur scratch paper and, at his kitchen table, retabulated the costs and savings one more time. He figured Clinton needed $50 billion for a bare-bones benefit package...
...Michaela Odone might have improved the condition of their son Lorenzo, 14, who suffers from a degenerative nerve illness called adrenoleukodystrophy. Now a two-year study from France concludes that the remedy, named for the Odones' son, is worthless -- at least for the milder, adult form of the ailment. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Patrick Aubourg and his colleagues from the St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Paris report that they could find no improvement in 24 patients who had taken Lorenzo's oil for up to 48 months...