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...Drs. Stuart D. Cook and Peter C. Dowling of the neurology service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange knew that while MS is not a directly inherited disease, it often strikes two and sometimes more members of a single family. They sought out 29 such patients and examined their patterns of pet ownership and exposure. It turned out that the MS families differed from their MS-free neighbors in one relevant respect: a greater proportion of them had small dogs (defined as those weighing less than 25 lbs., or 11.4 kg.) that stayed indoors much of the time...
...investigation into Lyme arthritis was led by Dr. Stephen Malawista, chief of Yale's rheumatology section, and two colleagues, Drs. Allen Steere Jr. and John Hardin. Because nearly all the victims lived in wooded areas heavily infested with insects, and because the cases usually cropped up at the height of the insect season, the Yale doctors had good reason to suspect that the carrier was a bug. Indeed, some of the victims remembered being bitten by a tick, although their blood has shown no specific signs of a bacterial or viral invasion. Yet recently the Yale doctors found...
Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute last week honored two leading U.S. virologists, Drs. Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek, by jointly awarding them the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (total value...
Obvious Symptoms. Good questions, other doctors agree. Though regular checkups are important for spotting health problems in youngsters and the elderly or in people with obvious symptoms of illness, they appear to be largely unproductive for the vast majority of the population. For most adults, write Drs. Donald M. Vickery and James F. Fries in a health guide called Take Care of Yourself (Addison-Wesley; $9.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback), "even the most elaborate checkups ... do not detect early and treatable diseases with any regularity." Dr. Russell Roth, a longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years...
...become centers of increasing controversy. Last week critics of the methadone program got some unexpected support. It came from the same doctors who did more than anyone else to create the massive U.S. methadone program, which is currently treating some 80,000 addicts. In a special report to JAMA, Drs. Vincent P. Dole and Marie Nyswander of Rockefeller University acknowledge that the methadone program, however sound in theory, has failed abysmally in practice...