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...overwhelming paucity of scientific data on the effectiveness of Laetrile, I was glad to see that you reported on some of the real fears that the FDA and the American Cancer Society have in this area. Cancer patients, especially those who are terminal, are easy prey for the quick-cure artist...
...have hit at the heart of the controversy: if Laetrile is legalized as a cancer cure without any evidence of its effectiveness, where will the line on such "cures" ever be drawn? Only the helpless and desperate will suffer, while the promoters of these unproven remedies will money. continue to count their...
...offset the business community's concerns. A majority of Americans seem willing, so far, to give him the benefit of ihe doubt. Carter also benefits from a post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate, post-Richard Nixon phenomenon: lowered expectations. Few Americans feel that a President can work magic or cure all ills. "That may be a plus," says Carter Pollster Pat Caddell. At the moment, it may be one of the biggest that Jimmy Carter has going...
...borne infection called erythema chronicum migrans; it is characterized by a similar reddening, although it has so far never been associated with arthritis. Now the Yale researchers will concentrate on finding the culprit, presumably a tick-borne virus. That should lead to a better understanding of-if not a cure for -Lyme arthritis and also shed light on other forms of the painful disease...
...film is a little self-consciously poignant. It carries its point as if it were a burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's illness by bringing her what she thinks is a cloud-a pillow-sized mass of cotton (an analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble...