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...Stuart D. Cook and Peter C. Dowling of the neurology service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange knew that while MS is not a directly inherited disease, it often strikes two and sometimes more members of a single family. They sought out 29 such patients and examined their patterns of pet ownership and exposure. It turned out that the MS families differed from their MS-free neighbors in one relevant respect: a greater proportion of them had small dogs (defined as those weighing less than 25 lbs., or 11.4 kg.) that stayed indoors much of the time...
...many puzzling features of MS is its geographical distribution. It is most common in northern states and decreases in incidence toward the Gulf states and the tropics. Since dogs are about equally popular in both the North and South of the U.S., some questioners of the Cook-Dowling research have asked how dogs can have anything to do with the human disease. Bowling's answer: In the warmer South, dogs are less often kept indoors as house pets, but are left to roam more freely outside than in the cooler North...
...Captain Cook, Hawaii...
Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...
...Cook County Judge Raymond Berg last week postponed ruling on Chicago's motion for a prevention order, and directed Chicago authorities to meet with black leaders and arrange for a march in Marquette Park. A grateful coalition leader, the Rev. A.I. Dunlap, said he would consider parading on a weekday, in order to reduce the potential for violent counterdemonstrations. Sounding very like his predecessor, Richard Daley, Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic says "I don't think it has anything to do with color," and adds "marching has turned out to be a regressive type of thing...