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There is no cure, and the most recent treatment, the use of a drug called tacrine, merely improves intellectual performance in some patients. Death generally comes within eight to 12 years of the diagnosis...
...debilitating disease. Former President Reagan's revelation last weekend that he's an Alzheimer's victim is expected to focus national attention on the disease. Still, the availability of the new testing procedure means only that patients can plan for the loss of mental ability; there's no known cure yet.Post your opinion on theHealth & Medecinebulletin board...
...Crimson editorial states, "As governor, [Bill Weld] has understood the importance of attracting employers to the state," Not one new business has moved to Massachusetts during the Weld administration. Weld's only prescription for the economy is the introduction of casino gambling. This is a cure worse than the disease...
...Most people think that when you say IQ is genetic, you're saying you can't change it. That isn't what it means," insists Christopher Jencks, the liberal social scientist. "If you say breast cancer is hereditary, it tells you nothing about whether you can cure breast cancer." Craig Ramey, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, studied poor children who were enrolled as infants in a multiyear program that provided them and their mothers with health care and a stimulating learning environment. Many of them developed and sustained normal IQs of around 100, while those...
...Children's Hospital discovered that angiostatin -- a protein produced by large, growing tumors -- inhibits the growth of tiny secondary tumors that spread through the bloodstream and often lodge in vital organs such as the lungs, liver and brain. While the study's authors caution that this isn't a cure for cancer, they're optimistic that the protein will someday be used to slow or stop the growth of cancerous tumors...