Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After perceiving the entire universe in a small stone, Matteo suffers something of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a cure, he fetches up at an ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, run by an elderly woman known to her devotees as the Mother. "We know the Divine Force is everywhere," she tells the faithful. "Bliss! Bliss now, bliss here, forever bliss." This is what Matteo has been waiting to hear. Sophie, now pregnant, is skeptical, but she moves in and bears the first of her two children...
...early to predict, however, whether this rare elixir (called leptin, after the Greek leptos, meaning slender) will be a stunning pharmaceutical success or just another "miracle" cure that never pans out. Even if all goes well, it could be five to 10 years before leptin is approved for human use. Researchers must first demonstrate that leptin benefits people as well as rodents and that it causes no serious side effects...
Asthma is an inflammation of the bronchial tubes that is not difficult to treat, even if doctors cannot cure it. (Most people with asthma develop it as children or teenagers, and some eventually outgrow the condition.) The key, specialists say, is to control the underlying inflammation, usually with corticosteroid drugs. What makes the disease so dangerous is that it can kill in a matter of minutes. Every now and again, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the bronchioles overreact to the presence of allergens. The walls of the airways clamp down, shutting off the supply of oxygen...
...even if a tiny malignant cell had escaped from Dole's prostate before the organ was removed and had seeded another tumor elsewhere in his body, chances are excellent that he would still die with prostate cancer, as opposed to from it. "You can't guarantee a 100% cure," says Dr. Gerald Chodak, director of the Prostate/Urology Center at University of Chicago Hospital. "But the odds are very much in his favor." In Chodak's opinion, Dole could run for President "three times [in a row] and not get into trouble" from his prostate. Whether or not he will...
...children in different parts of the nation--doesn't hold with remarks impugning his morality. During an appearance with Zhirinovsky on a live talk show, rival politician BORIS NEMTSOV suggested that the extremist had contracted syphilis from the 200 women he told Playboy he'd slept with. "We can cure you," said Nemtsov. "We have two simple injections." In reply, Zhirinovsky threw juice at Nemtsov. Nemtsov threw juice back. The scuffle escalated, and after the show, formerly placatory host ALEXANDER LYUBIMOV was said to have been reduced to punching Zhirinovsky in the face...