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Because of the widespread concern over AIDS, more victims are seeking medical attention at the first signs of the disease. Often these include low-grade fever, swollen glands and general malaise. Early detection makes it easier to control infections with antibiotics and to treat Kaposi's by surgical excision of lesions, chemotherapy and, more recently, the experimental use of interferon. The discovery that Kaposi's is more likely to strike a certain genetic type has made high-risk individuals easier to identify...
...Englishman named Robert Sangster, 46, the buyer of the $4.25 million yearling at Keeneland, who last week purchased two fillies and partial interests in two colts at Saratoga for a total of $667,000. More than any other person, Sangster has been the critical player in the current horse fever. Heir to a Liverpool-based soccer betting operation, Sangster has used his winning touch at breeding to go from riches to phenomenal riches. In provident exile on the bucolic Isle of Man, a tax haven in the Irish Sea, he now runs a multimillion-dollar equine empire, Swettenham Stud, from...
...January of 1979, as the century's worst blizzard howled outside, George and Jeanine Loulousis of Mokena, Ill., hovered anxiously over the bed of their three-month-old son Jonathan, watching his sudden and unexplained fever rise steadily higher. Three years later, Jonathan was dead of a rare and incurable form of colitis, leaving his emotionally shattered parents to face an equally catastrophic economic woe: a staggering $400,000 in medical bills incurred in the futile fight to save their...
...against skyrocketing health-care costs unless the Congress and the Administration work together to give the problem the priority it deserves. So far, that has not happened, and the longer the subject is postponed, the worse it seems destined to get. The fact is that as long as the fever of rising costs burns in the business of medical science, the economy can never be totally cured of inflation. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago and Jeanne Saddler/Washington
...drugs known as beta blockers, which interfere with the nervous stimulation of the cardiovascular system (by blocking "beta receptors" on cells). Though widely used to treat high blood pressure, severe chest pain (angina) and to prevent second heart attacks, beta blockers can be dangerous for people with asthma, hay fever and some types of diabetes and heart conditions. "It would worry me considerably if propranolol were being taken on the street," says Dr. Robert Temple of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...