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...evidence." Product labels contain no warnings, few guidelines for use, and potentially dangerous ingredients are often not listed. "Anyone who takes these pills is basically acting as a trial subject," says Dr. Chung Mau Lo of the University of Hong Kong Medical Center, who works in its liver transplant clinic...
...just that information to some 20 people. If they are not killed by accident or some other disease, these individuals are predetermined to get early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain, the same proportion as in the rest of the world: roughly 1% of the general population...
...Native American traditions. For visitors, tribal culture offers a glimpse of the American past. For Indians, it is key to their survival as distinct peoples. At the Boys and Girls Club on Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, the posters read TRADITION, NOT ADDICTION. At an Indian Health Service clinic in Mobridge, S.D., teenage methamphetamine users are introduced to the sweat lodge. The Cheyenne River Sioux run a herd of more than 2,000 buffalo and distribute meat to tribe members, while the Lower Brule Sioux are planning a buffalo museum...
...Angeles clinic wants to bring that hope one step closer to reality by opening the first for-profit egg-freezing operation in the country. "It's like an insurance policy," says Dr. Thomas Kim, medical director of the CHA Fertility Center, which wants to start freezing the eggs of women ages 35 and younger beginning this fall for about $8,000. "If they are willing to do it, we are happy to give them the service...
...Bologna's Infertility and IVF Center leads the world with an impressive 27 frozen-egg babies. But with more than 600 women each year undergoing the egg-freezing procedure there, the center's past success rates have been as low as 1%. Even Reproductive Biology Associates, the Atlanta clinic where Christia Murdaugh froze her eggs back in 1997, has all but dropped out of the field. Of 30 patients, only two delivered healthy babies. A third had a miscarriage, and the other 27 never got pregnant at all. "There is a lot of hype about this," says Dr. Hilton Kort...