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...drugs. The Administration has proposed "parallel track" legislation that would make drugs available to certain patients before the usual testing process is complete. Nothing wrong with this. But this exception is for AIDS patients only -- a fact that hardly supports the thesis that government is holding back an AIDS cure or discriminating against AIDS patients...
...AIDS. In the quite understandable attempt to get public support, it fixed on a strategy of claiming that AIDS was everyone's problem. Since we were all potential sufferers -- anyone can get AIDS, went the slogan -- society as an act of self-protection should go all out for cure and care...
...earlier and more accurately, thus easing the needless anxiety the elderly often feel at any lapse of memory or momentary confusion. (Doctors admit that their diagnoses of the disease are wrong about 30% of the time.) Second, Alzheimer's finally appears to be yielding to treatment, though a cure could be many years away...
...Cherry Hill, N.J., requires natural mothers to fill out ten-page medical histories that ask about everything from hay fever and heavy drinking to Down's syndrome and blood transfusions. Genetic counselors are often called in as consultants. "We believe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," says agency supervisor Mary Anne Giello...
When elections were held last week in the Dominican Republic, the two closest contenders for President were old -- very old -- rivals: Joaquin Balaguer, 82 and blind with glaucoma, the current leader, and Juan Bosch, 80, a Marxist and former President who now endorses capitalism as the way to cure the country's economy...