Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Help for rheumatoid arthritis...
...Sandra Rachel, 36, a Dickerson, Md., housewife, the pain and stiffness were almost unbearable. Even dressing required aid. Often the swelling in her joints was so severe that she could not get out of bed before noon. No medications seemed to help. That was a year ago. Today Rachel can dress easily, do household chores and climb up the nine flights of stairs to her doctor's office. Her startling rejuvenation is in part the result of a novel experimental treatment that may eventually help many other victims of severe rheumatoid arthritis as well...
...lymphapheresis (removal of only the white blood cells) three times a week for five to six weeks. In all except two Los Angeles patients, the therapy provided startling improvement. Their stiffness and agony was relieved for a period averaging several months. An unexpected observation: some patients seemed to get help from drugs that had not been doing them much good, or were not expected to work...
...case, Senator William Proxmire ridiculed a scientist, Ronald Hutchinson, claiming that he had wasted taxpayers' dollars with his publicly funded research. Hutchinson had received more than $500,000 to study aggression in monkeys in order to help the Navy and NASA better select crewmen for submarines and spacecraft. Calling the project "monkey business," Proxmire announced in news releases and newsletters that he had honored it with one of his monthly "Golden Fleece Awards." Hutchinson sued him for $8 million in damages for libel. Another case involved a man named Ilya Wolston, a former State Department interpreter, who had been...
Despite the debacle, General George R. Doster, an Alabama Air National Guard commander who had taken part in what he called the most "asinine operation I ever saw," later was summoned to CIA headquarters in Virginia and permitted to read a letter commending him for his clandestine help. As he started to put it in his pocket, it was snatched away. Oh, no, he was told, it was secret and could only go in his files. He felt "like a dumb ass," Doster told Wyden...