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...rest is a pilgrimage. Dragging his mother from place to place, from treatment to treatment, quack to quack. Everyone phoned with a miracle cure. His mother implored: "Why don't you let me die?" And Koch: "Oh, Mama, you're silly. You're not going to die." Then the astonishment: "She died to the day, three months; that is what is so incredible...
...reason for the current caution is the difficulties researchers are encountering in perfecting the use of interferon as a possible cure for cancer. After well over a year of testing on human patients, "interferon hasn't yet done anything better than any other anticancer drug," says Frank Rauscher, senior vice president for research of the American Cancer Society...
Despite a dwindling federal money supply, Harvard researchers this year finished up a number of pioneering studies, venturing new ideas in almost every major scientific field. While Harvard has yet to come up with a cure for the common cold, its experimenters and theoreticians made headway in diagnosing cystic fybrosis, alleviating insomnia, and treating sickle-cell anemia...
This is the tale of a cure and a crucifixion. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss (1818-65) was a pioneer in antisepsis. As a young doctor in the obstetrics wards of a Viennese hospital, Semmelweiss saw a dismaying number of women die in convulsive agony after giving birth. Because he dared to analyze the cause, Semmelweiss was hounded into madness by disbelieving colleagues and the inflexible Pooh-Bahs of European medicine. Despite a loving wife (Jeanne Koren) and sister (Mary Lou Rosato), he died as a historical martyr of truth...
...inflation turned the U.S. into a nation of spendthrifts? And if so, is the tax-cut package that Ronald Reagan has placed before Congress the proper medicine to cure America's wastrel malaise? Those are some of the questions Congress now faces as it passes judgment on President Reagan's economic program...