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Critics, particularly in France, have long accused Armstrong, a cancer survivor, of needing drugs to win his titles. Adding fuel to that fire is recent testimony from an ex-teammate and his wife, first reported in the French newspaper Le Monde. Nearly a decade ago, three days after doctors removed two cancerous lesions from his brain, Armstrong relaxed in an Indiana hospital room with a group of close friends. It was there, says Betsy Andreu, then the fiancé of one of Armstrong's cycling teammates, that the future cycling giant admitted to being juiced. According to Andreu's testimony from...
...When Lucentis is approved, it is doubtful Americans will continue to use Avastin for AMD - even though the cheaper drug has worked so well that some 30 states now cover it for macular-degeneration treatment, says Rosenfeld. Doctors predict patients will go for the drug that has the FDA imprimatur, as long as insurance companies pick up the higher cost. Doctors too will most likely turn to the more expensive drug. "Let's just say there's a bad outcome," says Dr. John Sorenson, an AMD expert in New York City. "You can already hear the lawyers say, 'Doctor...
...showed very little interest in adding to the family fortune. When Roosevelt was a toddler, his asthma began to overshadow everything he did. As he grew, Theodore was too "delicate" for school--until Harvard he was educated at home--and too weak to stand up to other boys. On doctor's orders his father Theodore Sr.--called Thee by everyone in the family--and his mother Martha, called Mittie, rushed him to seashore resorts one day and mountain cabins the next in search of air to help him breathe. The sickly boy seemed unlikely to survive into manhood or amount...
...squalid towns of Panama were rife with diseases like malaria and yellow fever. As many as 20,000 people died during the French effort to build a canal in the late 1800s. But as a result of his work in Cuba after the Spanish-American War, a tireless American doctor named William Gorgas came to believe strongly in the new discovery that a specific mosquito spread yellow fever. Overcoming doubters, he began a widespread campaign of mosquito eradication and sanitation improvements. The death rate among canal workers plummeted...
...Republican presidential nomination, but the party renominates Taft--even though Roosevelt won all but one primary and caucus. The new Progressive (Bull Moose) Party promptly adopts T.R. as its candidate. That October he is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wis., but gives a 90-min. speech before seeing a doctor. Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected on Nov. 5, 1912; T.R., the runner-up, garners the largest percentage of votes ever by a third-party candidate. In the fall of 1913, T.R. travels to South America, where he gives lectures and explores Brazil's "River of Doubt." He nearly dies...