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Aplastic anemia strikes about 1,000 people in the U.S. each year and kills 50% to 80% of them within a matter of months. Doctors do not know the ailment's causes; genetic factors, radiation, viruses and such chemicals as benzines have all been implicated. But whenever anyone survives, it is usually because his bone marrow suddenly-and mysteriously-begins working again. Teddy, who is the son of a prominent cancer specialist, Dr. Vincent DeVita Jr., director of the division of cancer treatment at NCI, has shown little improvement. His marrow remains almost as inactive today...
...thought blacks had more freedom and where he sent his only son to school. Condemned at home in the McCarthy era as an admirer of the Soviet Union and a friend of Communists, Robeson went into a clouded decline from which he never emerged. Stricken by a circulatory ailment in 1963, he spent his last years in seclusion, refusing interviews, seeing only family and a few friends...
Physicians have long used medical jargon to impress gullible laymen. As far back as the 13th century, the medieval physician Arnold of Villanova urged colleagues to seek refuge behind impressive-sounding language when they could not explain a patient's ailment. "Say that he has an obstruction of the liver," Arnold wrote, "and particularly use the word obstruction because [patients] do not understand what it means." Such deceptions may still occasionally be practiced on patients, but this does not account for the impenetrable prose in contemporary medical journals, which are read mostly by doctors...
Douglas Grimes is the unlikely hero of Shaw's high entertainment, Nightwork. A young pilot prematurely grounded by an eye ailment, Grimes answers the musical question: "What if $100,000 should fall into my lap?" That is almost literally what happens to him in the most improbable of settings - the St. Augustine Hotel (semibitter religious joke here), a Manhattan charnel house where Grimes works as night clerk...
...stomach ailment hindered the Crimson's number-one saber man Larry Tu, who failed to win a match, but Nick Tepe fared better in winning two out of three matches. John Chipman, after an early loss, was outpointed in his second bout after gaining a 1-3 lead...