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...clinical trials of new drugs designed to postpone or reduce symptoms. "If we can delay the onset of Alzheimer's by five years," he says, "by some estimates we can cut the incidence of Alzheimer's in half. If we can delay the disease by 10 years, we could almost eliminate it because people would die from other conditions first...
Public health officials have been warning for some time that nothing about the flu is predictable. But here's something that is: When it comes to a new strain of the flu like H1N1, which has already stoked global fears of a massive pandemic, there's almost certain to be some overreaction. That's what happened this week when the public was hit with a double-play of scary news: A new estimate showed that that up to 90,000 Americans could die of H1N1 in the upcoming season; and a simultaneous report that the government was taking some unprecedented...
...years since his graduation from Harvard, Kennedy remained connected to the University. He was involved in creating the Institute of Politics, which commemorates his brother John F. Kennedy ’40. During his time serving as a member of the IOP’s Senior Advisory Committee, Kennedy almost never missed a meeting and “would light up” when he had the chance to meet with students, said Ellwood...
...part, I believe, because he sensed that Reagan was stronger than he seemed and, more decisively, because his children strongly objected to another race. The next time - 1988 would be his best chance, I told him, because his opponent would be the first George Bush - he dropped out almost three years before the election. He was convinced that his work in the Senate on issues like sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa was being hobbled by the assumption that he was inevitably a presidential candidate. So this time, when he announced that he wasn't running, he added...
...again on that journey to Denver in 2008. He was taken to a hospital almost as soon as we arrived, was released, and then was rushed back again. He was in agony - not from the cancer but from a sudden attack of kidney stones. He was determined to speak to the convention and left his hospital bed a little more than an hour before his appearance, which much of the press and most delegates regarded as improbable or impossible. I stood and cried as he walked onto the stage. In 1980, he had gone there...