Word: benefited
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...pain. Senator Kennedy asked whether he had brothers and sisters. The patient replied, quite matter-of-factly, that two older brothers had died from the disease when he was very young, because kidney transplants were not yet available. So he felt fortunate to have been born recently enough to benefit from a life-saving transplant. The patient was also glad that affected children born yet more recently could avoid the kidney disease altogether; a recently developed medication prevents formation of the crystals altogether. A few minutes later a normal looking, 11-year-old boy who had inherited the same disorder...
This episode embodies many of my messages today: the message that science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice; that the Federal government, much maligned in current politics, can be a powerful force for public benefit; that the government can work productively with universities, where the cellular defect in cystinosis was studied, and with industries, where the new drug was manufactured; and finally, that progress in medical science occurs at a pace that may seem slow at the time to desperate parents, but astoundingly rapid in retrospect. Just consider: in the space...
...reported that women who douched most often had the lowest pregnancy rate: 27 percent had not conceived after a year compared to just 10 percent of women who never or rarely douched. The practice is still very common even though doctors have long believed that healthy women get no benefit from douching, and it has been shown to increase the risk of serious pelvic infections. The anti-fertility effects, the study found, remain in force even if a would-be mother douches many days before or after having sex. It also doesn't matter whether women use commercial douches...
...ticket, at least in part because he wants to create a party that will outlast him. Under federal rules, if Perot gets 5% of the popular vote in this election, his party gains not only legal status but also the right to a federal subsidy in 2000 that would benefit a compatible successor. So far, the Federal Election Commission staff has decided that he personally would be eligible for a grant in this election of about $32 million based on his 1992 showing. But FEC lawyers have yet to rule on whether the Reform Party itself is entitled...
...Gifford, who is gifted at both self-promotion and self-preservation, this has become a consuming cause. When the charges first hit, her tearful self-defense rightly noted that of her clothing line's $9 million profit last year, she donated $1 million to the Association to Benefit Children, which opened shelters for crack-addicted children and children with AIDS. She promised to monitor factories where her clothes are made and said she would recruit other famous endorsers like Jaclyn Smith to help pressure manufacturers to police labor practices more closely...