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...twins and adopted children by Biochemist Seymour Kety strongly suggest a genetic base for schizophrenia. According to Kety, the flaw, contained in the cells' DNA, the master genetic molecules, may possibly be transmitted by viruses. In any case, the new pharmacological researchers no longer regard schizophrenia as a single ailment but, like cancer, as a collection of different malfunctions. In schizophrenia, the common denominator is the brain, and many scientists are convinced that a neurotransmitter, or chemical brain-signal carrier, called dopamine is the prime culprit...
Although drugs have been used for decades to fight mental illness, scientists have not really understood how they worked. Now all that is changing. A miraculous pharmacopoeia is being explored to deal with every kind of ailment in the mind and body. Not too far off may be tailor-made drugs that will lull insomniacs into peaceful sleep, dull the throbbing of pain, organize a schizophrenic's thoughts and perhaps even simulate the pleasures...
...recent preliminary diagnosis by hematologists at Boston Children's Hospital indicates that Hackett has a rare blood ailment which severely limits his ability to recover quickly from viral infections. The disorder raises serious questions as to whether the distance ace can possibly be in top form this weekend...
...only upset of the day came in the "B" Championship when Gonzalez, unranked in the tournament, drew Gerhart, seeded third, in a qualifying round Gerhart has been ill all week with the flu and with another as yet unidentified ailment...
...didn't know I had a DREAD DISEASE didja?" When a bone ailment forced her onto crutches, she called them "my two aluminum legs." The less she could do, the more she kidded herself: "My greatest exertion and pleasure these last years has been throwing the garbage to the chickens and I can still do this, though I am in danger of going with...