Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fermina meanwhile marries Juvenal Urbino, a famous doctor who, having studied medicine in Paris, tries to reform the health standards of the city, which is presumed to be Cartagena or Barranquilla--on the Colombian Caribbean coast. Their match, while longlasting, is hardly ideal, and Marquez writes that "the problem with public life is overcoming terror; the problem with marriage is overcoming boredom...
...controversy erupts over dangerous working conditions in the Capitol's mail-folding room, where newsletters are processed. Congress does not fall under the occupational safety and health (OSHA) regulations that bedevil other employers...
...Cancer Institute. The immune system is compared favorably with the most complex organ of them all, the brain. "The immune system has a phenomenal ability for dealing with information, for learning and memory, for creating and storing and using information," explains Immunologist William Paul of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Declares Dr. Stephen Sherwin, director of clinical research at Genentech: "It's an incredible system. It recognizes molecules that have never been in the body before. It can differentiate between what belongs there and what doesn...
Tragic as it is, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the AIDS research coordinator for the National Institutes of Health, the AIDS epidemic has provided important new insights into the immune system. "AIDS is the perfect disease for studying the immune system," he explains. "The virus destroys one of the + major cells of the system. So now nature is doing the experiment. It has just pulled out a major chip, and we're watching everything else go haywire." On the other hand, AIDS Expert Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute believes that much of the progress in AIDS research would have...
Indoor tanning salons, with their clamshell-like Plexiglas sun-lamp beds, have become a testament to the American conviction that a bronzed body radiates health and affluence. In a decade, the industry has burgeoned into 18,000 salons nationwide. Thousands of other businesses, like health clubs, have installed tanning booths. Now the pain: doctors are warning that exposure to the ultraviolet light emitted by sun lamps may result in afflictions, ranging from skin cancer to cataracts, that show up as much as 20 years later. Declares Dr. Stephen Katz, dermatology chief at the National Cancer Institute: "These things are hazardous...