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During the 1960 presidential campaign, rumors surfaced that candidate John F. Kennedy was suffering from Addison's disease, an incurable, potentially fatal deterioration of the adrenal glands. If true, the information could have influenced the outcome of what ended up being a very tight election. But Kennedy denied it, and the press, as it would later do with other unsavory talk about the Kennedy clan, let the matter rest...
...fertilize them in a test tube with her husband's sperm. When the fertilized eggs have grown to the 32- or 64-cell stage, the doctors will flick off a few cells from each and analyze their DNA. When they find an egg carrying a gene without the fatal defect, they will implant it in the uterus and allow the fetus to grow to term, free from the threat of Huntington's disease...
...malignancies and can often give an indication of cancer where none exists. Furthermore, prostate cancers are not all the same; many grow so slowly that they do not need to be treated at all. A man could easily die of something else before his prostate condition proved fatal. If millions of men 50 and older take the blood test, some doctors fear that a great deal of unnecessary treatment will take place...
...plan of government. In South Africa, though, the groups trying to write a constitution have never done anything cooperatively, let alone fought a successful war for independence. History for them is a negative force to be overcome if a situation already critical is not to become one that proves fatal for multi-racial democracy in South Africa...
...cholera picked up in Ecuador that was impervious to a variety of antibiotics. Penicillin- resistant strains of gonorrhea, originally noted in Africa around 1976, have cropped up in the Philippines, Thailand and the Washington Heights section of New York City. Public health officials are particularly concerned about potentially fatal forms of dysentery in Central and South America that are resistant to half a dozen drugs...