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Hillier's remarkable weight loss is the result not of some new dieting fad but of the oldest, surest and quickest way to get rid of excess fat: fasting. Along with others afflicted with severe obesity, he had enrolled in a pioneering fasting clinic at Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital. Except for a powdery mix of mainly alanine (an amino acid) and glucose that is taken with water or diet drinks, patients at the clinic eat nothing whatsoever for weeks and months at a time, starving off their pounds...
...infected person can receive treatment at any university or public or pubic health clinic, Fiumara said. Clinics and private doctors usually use a salve, which is rubbed into the infected area and showered off 24 hours later. Nonprescription remedies are also available over the counter...
Similar Affliction. The first deaths in the latest outbreak occurred last month in the remote southern Sudanese shantytown of Maridi. Doctors at a clinic there radioed that 46 people had died, including a physician and several nurses. Since then, reports from neighboring Zaire indicate that at least 200 people have died of a similar affliction. In both regions the victims first suffered severe headaches and high fever. Within days they were coughing, vomiting and hemorrhaging, and a third to a half of all those hospitalized later died...
Heeding the advice of health officials, Charles Gabig, 71, a retired telephone engineer, and two housewives, Mrs. Julia Bucci, 75, and Mrs. Ella Michael, 74, last week joined hundreds of other elderly people in line for swine-flu shots at an Allegheny County clinic on Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed...
Still, the three deaths at the same Pittsburgh clinic on the same day were hard to explain by any reckoning. Though other Pennsylvania health authorities disputed him, Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht speculated that the shots might have been improperly injected into a vein (and thus directly into the blood) rather than into muscle tissue, possibly accelerating any adverse reactions. Even Dr. David Sencer, director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is directing the nationwide inoculation program, acknowledged that while he felt the Pittsburgh deaths were probably coincidences, "we can't sit back and assume...