Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CEREDASE, A BREAKTHROUGH TREATMENT for the crippling and sometimes fatal , genetic disorder called Gaucher's disease, is changing lives, even saving them -- but not always making them better. For Jeanne Rogal, 29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Ceredase has reduced the pain from her crumbling bones, removed the lipid deposits choking her liver, and restored her energy so she can enjoy life again. But with it comes a crushing financial burden: Ceredase can cost up to $350,000 for a year's treatment...
...Aidid. Angered that American forces in the town allowed this to happen, Aidid accused them of engineering the attack and called for widespread demonstrations against the foreign force. Relief operations in the capital ground to a halt as aid workers confined themselves to their heavily guarded compounds after the fatal shooting of an Irish nurse earlier in the week...
Barber: Gave them up? Don't you know that people in the south of France eat twice as much pâté as anyone else in the country but have the lowest rates of fatal heart disease? The French in general have less heart disease than Americans, thought they eat lots of fat and cholesterol. Red wine could be part of the reason...
...group of Medical School researchers has found an altered gene that may be responsible for Lou Gehrig's disease, suggesting that doctors should start looking for ways to attack dangerous free elements left to roam in the central nervous systems of patients with the fatal disorder...
...progressive and fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Patients are usually stricken between the ages of 40 and 70. Their motor neurons begin to die and they lose control over their muscles. Life expectancy once symptoms are observed is usually between just two and five years...