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...scarce medical resources--sounds like the essence of fairness. Yet the new organ-allocation system has ignited one of the most bitter and divisive controversies to hit U.S. medicine in decades. Hospital officials are charging one another with dishonesty and greed. Old friends have become enemies. Says Mayo Clinic health-policy analyst Roger Evans: "It's shocking. There is so much personal animosity, it's almost hatred, and it will only deteriorate over time...
While none of these treatments cure the disease, many slow its relentless progress, usually with fewer side effects than existing drugs have. That doesn't mean problems won't eventually show up in long-term users. "There is always a concern," says Michael Schiff of the Denver Arthritis Clinic, "that when you interfere with the immune system, you could get serious infections or malignancies...
...until now, anyway. Geneticist Edward Fugger and his colleagues at Genetics & IVF Institute, a fertility center in Fairfax, Va., surprised the obstetrical world last week with a report in the journal Human Reproduction asserting that the clinic can offer couples an 85% chance of ensuring they will have a girl. "I'm impressed," says Dr. Alan DeCherney, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and editor of the journal Fertility and Sterility. "It really seems to work...
...works only if you and your doctor choose the same program, which can be tough to coordinate. So I recommend that you confine your e-mail messages to routine inquiries: appointment scheduling, follow-up questions after a checkup, requests for a prescription refill or a referral. Stanford University Medical Clinic forbids discussion of a patient's HIV status, mental illness or worker's compensation claims via e-mail--and for good reason...
This theory predicted some bizarre disorders,which were soon identified in his clinic...