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...husband and I saw Blair Witch last weekend and hated it. But we have nothing but admiration for the directors--$100 million in ticket sales so far from a $35,000 movie. Go, go, go!!!! MARISA GRAZIANO ROBERT GORMAN Blue Bell...
...This is another in a series of reminders that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness," says TIME science writer Christine Gorman. Years of overuse have sapped the potency of what has been considered the greatest health care breakthrough of the 20th century. According to the Centers for Disease Control, by 1997 half of all hospital-acquired staph infections were resistant to the most common types of antibiotics. So what can doctors do? For starters, they can stop prescribing so many antibiotics - it only accelerates the development of supergerms. Already, hospitals are trying to hold back on the use of vancomycin...
...This method would potentially give a more accurate reading of which women should be advised to undergo amniocentesis," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "But among women who might abort rather than give birth to a Down's syndrome baby, if a first-trimester test contains a warning sign, most would be unlikely to want to go through the agony of waiting until the second trimester for a definitive answer. This study contains some interesting clinical observations, but unfortunately what it really shows is that there?s still no conclusive non-invasive test for Down's syndrome...
...Researchers from UCLA and Maryland-based Human Genome Sciences have discovered two new angiogenesis inhibitors -- proteins that can starve a tumor by choking off its blood supply -- called METH-1 and METH-2 that may be 50 times more effective than anything currently being studied. TIME science writer Christine Gorman says that while success in the lab is all well and good, she warns that advances like these have a long history of turning into dead ends. "Angiogenesis inhibitors have a 20-year history of disappointment when they?re tried outside the laboratory," she says. "The problem is, blood supply...
...team from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have identified a protein, called Fas ligand, that they think is the body?s own treatment for skin cancer from within. You may know it as peeling. "The body?s traditional respose to mutation is ?You change, you die,?" says Gorman. "When a skin cell sustains enough sun damage to its DNA that it may turn cancerous, the body sends this protein to kill the cell before it can reproduce." The mystery, of course, is why it doesn?t do it every time, but the researchers dream of turning Fas ligand...