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...interested to read about sexologists' squabbles over the "cure rate" for the "disorder" of low sexual desire [June 13]. So low sexual desire is a disorder? How about low desire to play tennis? Who is going to cure sexologists of the delusion that it's their place to tell other people what to want and how much to want...
...prime time program as well. He is also trying to complete the $250 million City of Faith medical center. Last February, amid growing reports that his center was in financial trouble, Roberts announced that Jesus had appeared to him in person and commissioned him to find a cure for cancer. The medical crusade was to be financed by Roberts' following of "prayer partners," with gifts of $240 per person. This appeal has raised more than $5 million to date. Roberts denies that his medical center is short of cash, but refuses to release any figures...
AIDS attacks its victims by knocking out the immune system, thus leaving them defenseless against a host of "opportunistic" infections. A rare form of cancer or pneumonia becomes a deadly invader, but so does a fungus or a common virus. Thus far, there is no cure for AIDS and its source remains unknown. "We've looked at a lot of suspects," says Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), "but we have not come up with enough grounds for an indictment...
...epidemic continues. An estimated 20.5 million Americans already have genital herpes, and several times that number live in fear of getting it. Their yearning for relief, a method of prevention and a cure for the virus has driven some to extremes; herpes sufferers have been known to try everything from hair dryers to Clorox to heal their lesions. Now, for the first time, it looks as though help and, more important, a means of preventing the disease...
...moral qualms about some forms of genetic engineering. For example, they do not object to scrambling the DNA of bacteria to make possible the mass production of insulin for diabetics. Nor do all of them oppose a possible future treatment that would change the genes of an individual to cure a disease such as hemophilia...