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...with a history of a genetic disease will tend to have similar configurations, permitting scientists to zero in on the likeliest site of the offending gene. In recent weeks biologists have announced the discovery of RFLP distinctive patterns, or "markers," for cystic fibrosis, which afflicts about 30,000 Americans; cardiovascular disease susceptibility; polycystic kidney disease; and muscular dystrophy. Says Manuel Buchwald of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, one of the co-discovers of the cystic fibrosis marker, "It's the first handle we have on the disease...
...author and star of the most influential work in film history. Praised and vilified as a boy genius, Welles was now condemned, or condemned himself, to live out the myth. It finally has outlived him. Last week the Magnificent Cumbersome died in his Los Angeles home from complications of cardiovascular disease...
...Americans still do not get enough exercise. The Public Health Service defines that as anything that boosts heart and lung performance to 60% or more of its capacity at least three times a week for a full 20 minutes, the minimum needed to produce any cardiovascular benefit. Five years ago, the service urged that by 1990, three- fifths of those 18 to 64 and half of those 65 and over should be meeting that minimum. Now it says that chances of reaching those goals are "poor." Newly published 1985 Gallup Leisure Audit figures found no significant change in the number...
...according to HHS tests. Young people spend an average of 13 hours a week in sports or other exercise. They spend three to four times that watching TV and playing video games. Schoolchildren's scores are now declining for strength, power, speed, agility and cardiovascular fitness. The Amateur Athletic Union reports that 36% of youngsters meet its standards for push-ups, high jumps, long jumps, endurance runs and sprints. Just a few years ago, the number...
...funds supplied by the alcohol industry, found that moderate drinkers have 40% less chance of hospitalization for coronary problems than nondrinkers. Proof may be years away, but one theory is that alcohol helps raise the level of certain cholesterols in the blood that act as cleaning agents for the cardiovascular system. DISCUS, says Cameron, is stepping up efforts to show that "moderate consumption of liquor by normal adults is just as safe as beer and wine, and may even be beneficial...