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...fledgling field took another step forward in July, when doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center performed the first gene therapy on a woman with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic disease caused by the immune system's running amuck and attacking the body's connective tissue. Their strategy was to expose cells in the swollen tissue lining their patient's finger joints to genetically engineered viruses. These viruses carried a gene responsible for a protein that blocks the action of interleukin-1, a substance that stimulates immune-system activity. Without that stimulation, the doctors hope, the immune system will halt...
...Research finds that for reasons unclear, men with chronic BRONCHITIS may be 50% more likely to suffer a heart attack...
...today nothing has changed. The 2-to-1 split persists. A million more drug-treatment slots are still urgently needed; an additional 1.5 million chronic drug abusers are on probation with no treatment available. And antidrug-education programs in schools have grown in number but not much in effectiveness. Last week a federal study found that drug users among children ages 12 to 17 have more than doubled in four years, to nearly 11%. If nothing is done, that percentage is likely to double again in five years. "It's tragic but not surprising," says Rosalind Branningan of Drug Strategies...
PONTIAC, Michigan: After being cleared four times in the past five years on assisted suicide charges, Kevorkian is once again a controversial figure, this time in the suicide of 42 year-old Massachusetts resident Judith Curren. Curren had been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and fybromalgia, a painful muscle disorder which left her unable to move. Neither illness is fatal. A report released Monday by the Oakland County medical examiner says that he found no evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome or any other disease. But Curren had been contemplating suicide for four years, and finally against her husband's wishes...
PONTIAC, Michigan: After being cleared four times in the past five years on assisted suicide charges, Kevorkian is once again a controversial figure, this time in the suicide of 42 year-old Massachusetts resident Judith Curren. Curren had been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and fybromalgia, a painful muscle disorder which left her unable to move. Neither illness is fatal. A report released Monday by the Oakland County medical examiner says that he found no evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome or any other disease. But Curren had been contemplating suicide for four years, and finally against her husband's wishes...