Word: brained
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...appears as though large amounts of this protein occur in the brains of Alzheimer's victims but not those of healthy people. This means it may be possible to diagnose the disease in its early stages with an ordinary spinal tap. Such early diagnosis will probably be essential if medicine is to be successful in stopping the disease before it destroys the brain...
...toilet. Yet even then, when family and friends have suffered the heartbreaking deterioration of a loved one, it is still impossible to name the slow killer with absolute certainty. Only after the patient has died and an autopsy is done can the core of the brain be examined for the telltale dead nerve cells and tangled fibers that denote Alzheimer's disease, the senile dementia now recognized as the nation's fourth largest killer...
...indicator, identified by Biochemist Peter Davies, 38, and his graduate student Benjamin Wolozin, 28, is an abnormal protein in the brains of & Alzheimer's victims that also appears in the spinal fluid of living patients thought to have the disease. It is not known if the protein, called A-68, plays a role in causing the illness, but so far it is unique to Alzheimer's; that is, it has not been linked to other brain disorders. If further trials prove A-68 a reliable indicator, Davies says, a routine laboratory test for Alzheimer's could be available...
Flamenco, which includes the singing and guitar music as well as the dance of Andalusian Gypsies, has a language all its own, so simple that it seems to bypass the brain and speak directly to the heart. In the words of the playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, it "knows death, knows blood, knows love." And that awful but powerful knowledge is what this revue seeks to convey. As its title indicates, it presents the real, raw stuff, without nightclub flourish or Jose Greco's acrobatic flamboyance...
...promising that the tests were halted in September for ethical reasons, so that the drug would no longer be withheld from a control group of AIDS patients who had been receiving only inert placebos. AZT is also the first of the experimental drugs that can successfully penetrate to the brain, where until now the virus has found refuge...