Word: curing
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...brand did. ("ProtoLink: the Enterprise Solution for Internet Strategy. Because the future is where decisions will be made.") And throughout the year there were more and more of those ads for prescription drugs that didn't supply the smallest clue to what disease the miracle drug was supposed to cure. ("Sue, have you tried Protozip? It sure worked for me!" "No, Donna, I haven't, but I'm going to call my doctor today and ask for Protozip." Announcer: "Protozip should not be used by pregnant women or anyone who wears button-down collars. Bankers with a net worth...
...same morning that James Baker appears, trying his level best to look like a principled human being, a Latvian chef will also teach us how to stuff a banana with rabbit, and someone will announce that in the next half-hour we'll talk about a new cure for Parkinson's disease..."plus, live from the plaza--Jewel!" That's history for you. That's Bruegel's Icarus, as Auden pointed out in his poem on the painting; sensational events mingle with the run-of-the-mill till you cannot discern the amazing from the amazing...
...irreversible procedure is just one of many therapies, both surgical and pharmacological, Parkinson’s patients have tried over the years to control the tremors, rigidity and other symptons that characterize the disease. All of the treatments offer some relief, but none can remotely be called a cure. Now that may be changing. The deeper scientists peer into the human genome, the more they’re uncovering the secrets of Parkinson’s-and the more they’re growing convinced that next-generation drugs may be at last be able to beat back the disease. What’s more...
...hunt for a Parkinson’s cure got a boost in 1997, when researchers discovered a tiny population of patients who have a mutant gene that codes for alpha-synuclein. This might seem like open-and-shut evidence that the cause of the illness had been found, except that the vast majority of Parkinson’s patients, whose brains also grow gummed up, do not carry the mutation. Still, scientists are convinced that the bad gene is a powerful clue. "There appear to be more clumps in the brains of people with the mutant gene," says Zigmond. "Learning...
While reading about Castano, I could not help thinking that the cure was worse than the disease. MICHAEL D. MOLOHON Daytona Beach...