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...death prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to shut down all gene-therapy research at the University of Pennsylvania, reports were circulating in scientific circles that a team from the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris had achieved heartening results in a gene-therapy trial designed to cure severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), an inherited disorder that, left untreated, is fatal...
Sadly, despite its insightful exploration of terminal illness and all its repercussions, Wit cannot offer a solution, a cure. Dr. Bearing informs us two minutes into the play that she will ultimately die. Perhaps an answer to some of the dilemmas appears in the John Donne sonnets that provide Dr. Bearing with a coping mechanism for cancer. A comma is the only punctuation separating life from death in the verses of Donne. There is no conclusive period, no exclamation point separating the two juxtaposed thoughts; only a simple, smooth transitional comma. Of course, cancer is not the simplest or smoothest...
...JoAnn Manson, Harvard medical professor and study co-author: "Male-pattern baldness may serve as a marker for increased risk of heart disease, perhaps due to elevated testosterone levels. Hair tonics are an unlikely cure-all. A far better bet to protect your heart is 30 minutes of aerobic exercise daily. The good news: less time lost blow-drying afterwards...
...Scariest millenium moment: Your most prized piece of electronic equipment reads 11:59. You realize that you have listened to almost twelve minutes of the Backstreet Boys' "Millenium" album and are starting to like it. Nothing several gallons of bottled waterand three weeks in isolation couldn't cure...
RETIRING. Michael J. Fox, 38, actor who is suffering from Parkinson's disease; from the TV sitcom Spin City to work toward a cure for the illness...