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...have to be concerned with the quality," says former AMA president Richard Corlin, a gastroenterologist in Santa Monica, Calif. Corlin remembers a patient telling him about a medication he was taking, which Corlin immediately recognized as a drug banned a year earlier in the U.S. because it produced sometimes fatal heart arrhythmia. "He said, 'I get it in Mexico.' Is there someone controlling what they have access to and what they haven't? We do a pretty good job of that in this country. It is a lot harder to do in Mexico...
...latest setback for the field of gene therapy, researchers halted trials of a promising program after a French toddler developed a leukemia-like disease that has never before been seen. the child, who was born with an often fatal genetic condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (commonly referred to as "bubble boy" disease), had apparently been cured twoyears ago when doctors injected him with cells containing the missing normal gene. Butgene therapists suspect the replacement gene may have had an unintended effect: disrupting the normal workings of a different, anticancer gene...
...grimly as "death tourists," terminally ill people who come to Zurich to take their own lives. Eckstein is a member of Dignitas, a controversial Zurich-based organization that offers assisted suicide to people suffering from incurable conditions. Dignitas rents an apartment in the city where clients self-administer a fatal dose of barbiturates and slowly fade away while listening to their favorite music. "These people are like the ones who jumped from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11," says Ludwig Minelli, Dignitas' director. "They want to be spared terrible pain and suffering. Helping them is a very humane thing...
...many cases, VOD is fatal...
...July telling students accepted under early decision at other schools that they had to withdraw all other applications. The furor died down, and the conversation about how to end early decision resumed with little reference to Harvard’s now-dead idea that could have dealt the fatal blow...