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...showed that a high-dose regimen of vitamins (including C, E and beta-carotene) plus zinc was moderately successful for intermediate cases of AMD. (Smokers should not take beta-carotene, as it may increase their risk of lung cancer.) Most important of all are regular visits to an eye doctor, who can monitor the risk of AMD as well as other more readily treatable causes of blindness, like cataracts and glaucoma...
...start badgering your doctor for a statin prescription just yet. "I would like to see more studies," says Dr. Jacque Duncan, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the latest study. Statins, though remarkably safe, can trigger side effects, like severe muscle and joint pain. Long-term use of aspirin increases the risk of internal bleeding. Moreover, it isn't clear why either statins or aspirin works against AMD; the leading hypothesis is that their ability to dampen inflammatory processes in the body...
DIED. HENRY VISCARDI JR., 91, a leading campaigner for jobs for the disabled; in Roslyn, N.Y. Born with withered stumps for legs, he worked his way through law school and was employed as a tax clerk when a doctor fitted him with artificial legs that added 2 ft. to his natural 3 ft. 8 in. After working with amputees during World War II and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, he started Abilities, Inc., a nonprofit job-placement group, in 1952. Three groups founded by Viscardi merged in 1991 to create the National Center for Disability Services...
...deadlier plague. The Health Ministry reckons that China has 840,000 HIV-positive citizens, but the nation only recently admitted it had an epidemic. Last December, Wu descended from China's cloistered leadership compound and met one on one with the country's top AIDS activist, a retired country doctor named Gao Yaojie. "Wu Yi said to me, 'Now that everyone else is gone, you can tell me the truth,'" recalls Gao. Rather than bringing disaster, Wu is cleaning one up. --By Hannah Beech
...whose importance is a lot more subtle than bin Laden's or the Pope's. Bernard Lewis has been teaching since 1938, yet his theories on the failure of the Islamic world have only lately shifted the thinking of American policymakers. Bernard Kouchner and Samantha Power--one a French doctor, the other a U.S. scholar--have challenged us to understand that a nation's sovereignty does not give it the right to behave abominably inside its borders...