Word: bethesda
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...many other prominent researchers attending the conference, including Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, did not seem at all convinced that a cure was any closer. Gallo, among others, has failed in efforts to design an effective treatment based on the original discovery of the CD4 receptor. After Hovanessian's talk, Gallo tried to avoid reporters but was finally cornered. "Why is the press so excited about this?" he demanded. "I'm flabbergasted. I thought it was an interesting presentation, but I can't say more than that." Gallo's lack of enthusiasm was + hardly surprising...
...power, big money, big politics will always generate a degree of savagery in Washington. A distraught former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal threw himself to his death in 1949 out a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital; Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, in 1987 attempted suicide over his implication in the Iran-contra scandal. He survived and recovered...
After serving summer duty in Bethesda, Maryland, Burke will enter training this fall to become a naval doctor. One detects the slightest trace of ruefulness as she says, "Yeah, I owe the Navy 11 years...
...three youngsters with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency treated with the new technique in the past two weeks. Doctors at the University of California at San Francisco performed an operation identical to Andrew's on Zachary Riggins, a three-day-old infant. And at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, an 11-year-old girl underwent a similar procedure. These three cases mark an important new phase in the rapidly expanding field of gene therapy. Earlier experiments involved inserting beneficial genes only to treat disease, not to cure...
...Then there are the rumored slights, both real and imagined: a woman believed to be a member of the White House staff refused to speak to a top aide of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell (true); Chelsea Clinton refused a military escort (false); Clinton does not intend to use Bethesda Naval Hospital (he has not yet made clear where he will seek medical care). "It's not any one thing that makes us distrust Clinton. It's the accumulation," says a Navy officer. "At a certain point, every little thing starts to be viewed as part of the pattern...