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...Ukrainian immigrants who fled a displaced-persons camp in Germany after World War II, Sosenko grew up in Joliet watching his father, Roman, serve the town as a family doctor. He wanted to do the same for his friends and neighbors, treating people suffering from diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctor Won't See You Now | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...drove for half an hour, past rice paddies, water buffalo and palm trees." Invented Eden has many such sentences. Worse, Hemley is a complainer, which is no more fun in a book than on the trail: the roads are muddy, his saddle hurts, the locals rip him off, his asthma acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tribe Out of Time | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...Wild West Show, who conned a millionaire Chicago insurance executive named Albert Johnson into grubstaking a worthless mine. Johnson may have been snookered, but he was soon won over by the beauty and restorative qualities of the valley; the dry heat and clean air worked wonders with his asthma. In the late 1920s Johnson built a $2 million Spanish Colonial "vacation" hacienda with a lovely Gothic music room, handmade Spanish tiles, Italian and Mexican antiques and innovative solar-powered electrical and hot-water systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Death Valley Delights | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

Raised in Southern California, an area she describes as the “hotbed of softball,” Allard played many sports growing up, primarily focusing on softball and soccer. Asthma forced her to ultimately quit soccer in favor of softball, but looking back, that decision was probably for the best...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allard Masters Lessons on and off the Field | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

...guessed, TNX-901 is an anti-IgE antibody. Here's where the business complications come in. Three companies--Genentech, Tanox and Novartis--have been working in partnership since 1996 to develop anti-IgE therapies. Their lead anti-IgE product, called Xolair, could be approved for the treatment of allergic asthma by the Food and Drug Administration as early as this summer. When Tanox decided to develop TNX-901 on its own, Genentech and Novartis objected, saying that would dilute their development efforts. Last October arbitrators ruled that Tanox cannot be the sole developer of TNX-901, leaving what looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Fighting over Peanuts | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

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