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HOSPITALIZED. Jacob K. Javits, 79, longtime (1957-81) Republican Senator from New York; for a new experimental treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the progressive neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease; at Good Samaritan Hospital; in Los Angeles. Javits will be injected with extremely high doses of thyrotropin releasing hormone, an expensive ($2,400 per gram) drug that has produced dramatic but short-term improvements in ALS victims...
...first area to attract a number of researchers was the newborn baby's senses, which were once thought to represent little more than hunger to be fed. Systematic testing soon showed that babies not only perceive a good deal but have distinct preferences in everything. An Israeli neurophysiologist, Jacob Steiner, found that a baby as young as twelve hours old, which has never tasted even its mother's milk, will gurgle with satisfaction when a drop of sugar-water is placed on its tongue and grimace at a drop of lemon juice. More
...Jacob M. Schlesinger contributed to this report.HAROLD WASHINGTON...
...once thought that severely demented AD patients could not live very long. Today, says Chicago Neurologist Jacob Fox, they can survive for upwards of 15 years. "We've gotten better at preserving lives," he says, "but it's not clear we're doing the person a favor." Understandably, Alzheimer's patients can suffer severe depression. Their families may suffer even more. In addition to the enormous costs of health care and institutionalization, which is generally not covered by Medicare or private insurance, there is the terrible, haunting sense of loss to family members of the person...
...representative of the civil rights battles of the early 60s, they can be considered some sort of symbols of the fallout 20 years later. They make it clear that the progress made in the preliminary years of the movement was incomplete and not without some cost to those involved. Jacob M. Schlesinger