Word: defect
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KNOW THY GENES Researchers have found a genetic defect present in roughly 6% of Ashkenazi Jews that doubles the risk of colon cancer. The mutation can be picked up with a $200 blood test. And if cancer is detected early, the likelihood of a cure is high...
...clump together and vascular walls to begin to break down. In older patients, a lifetime of this damage may give arteries the scarred and thickened texture that provides circulating cholesterol with a place to stick and grow. In the young boy, accelerated homocysteine production caused by a genetic defect apparently led to accelerated damage. In both instances, however, McCully points to the same chemical culprit. "The underlying cause of heart disease," he says, "is an imbalance in the system that controls homocysteine levels...
...been more than five years since a ghastly plague passed through Brownsville, Texas, crippling and killing dozens of newborn babies. From 1988 to '92, 25 children were born with the spinal-nerve defect called spina bifida; more than 30 others had almost no brain at all--a related and fatal neural defect called anencephaly. "It would look like somebody took a knife and just whacked the top of their head off," said Brownsville physician Manuel Guajardo...
Enough of a disaster to topple its 49-year-old communist regime? Or to scare its reclusive "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, into a last-gasp invasion of South Korea? Last week Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect to the South, rattled nerves with a warning that Kim's million-man army was preparing for a suicidal attack. What's more, the North "is capable of scorching" South Korea and Japan with nuclear and chemical weapons, according to an article published by South Korea's largest daily newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, which secretly obtained...
Pumping iron he could do. Pumping blood was another matter. Not long after Maria Shriver was discharged from the hospital (she had hyperemesis, a pregnancy-related ailment), her hubby ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER checked himself in for voluntary heart surgery. He had a congenital defect in his aortic valve--the valve that stops blood from going back into the heart. Don't fret about those pecs, though. He's fine, and doctors say the scar will be barely noticeable...