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...patient told us how he was rescued from death by a kidney transplant at the age of ten, gradually lost his vision, and has lived with chronic 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...
...went to Alexandra M. Molnar '96 for "Through the Lens of Tourism: Shaping Identity in a Cretan Town"; Roxanne S. Tze Pan '96 for "Searching for the New Citizen: Liang Qichao's Conception of Freedom"; Michele R. Pelot '96 for "Mixed Chimerism and Adoptive Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Chronic Leukemias"; Timothy F. Platts-Mills '96 for "Spatial Variation in the Chemical Composition of Surface Waters in the Front Range, Colorado"; Elizabeth G. Ree '96 for "'Is It Art?': Changing Perceptions of Modernism and the Function of Art by the Public, Critics and Writers in Response to the 1913 Armory...
...some time or another, most men have suffered from temporary impotence. For 20 million Americans, however, their chronic inability to achieve or maintain an erection is more than just a passing embarrassment. In most of those cases, doctors now believe, the cause is biological, not psychological. Yet the treatments that are available--pneumatic pumps, injections, surgical implants--are far from satisfactory. They may be effective, but they are not much...
Because these co-payments can add up for workers who have chronic health problems or children who require frequent medical care, both the Joint Committee on Benefits and the University Benefits Committee have made proposals limiting the number of times employees would have to make these payments...
...approach to weight control that reflects medicine's new understanding of obesity as a chronic disease rather than a failure of willpower. "Some people will need to take [weight-control] medications all their life, just as some need to take medication for hypertension," says Dr. Michael Hamilton, director of the Duke Diet and Fitness Center at Duke University. That could be an expensive proposition: a month's worth of Redux is expected to cost $75. Some who can improve their eating and exercise habits, Hamilton suggests, may eventually be able to wean themselves from the pills...