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...awful lot like ataxia-telangiectasia,' which we couldn't even pronounce. 'I assume you've tested for this?' All it takes is a $20 blood test. The local doctors just looked at their feet." The Marguses recognized the name (it's pronounced ay-tack-see-uh teh-lan-jick-tay-sha), but all they knew was that A-T was really bad. At home that night they read that about 40% of kids with A-T get cancer by age 12; 100% deteriorate neurologically, so they're in wheelchairs as early as age 8; most die of lung problems...
...Hershel Jick of Boston University, who headed the research team, said yesterday there has been an epidemic of uterine cancer in the United States since the mid '60s. The number of cases has recently declined, he added...
...records of hospital patients are analyzed by a computer, the electronic brain sometimes makes surprising discoveries by collating and relating data that a human mind would take many years to process. This has happened in the Boston metropolitan area, where a Boston University team led by Dr. Hershel Jick analyzed the records of 25,000 patients admitted to 24 hospitals in 1972. The surprise finding, reported in the British medical journal the Lancet, is that women aged 50 or over who take certain types of medication to relieve mild cases of high blood pressure run a threefold increased risk...
Broad Spectrum. Last month, when the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds selected Brandeis Historian Leon A. Jick to direct their new Institute for Jewish Life, Jick emphasized that the $1,350,000 earmarked for the institute over the next three years would go to projects that specifically deepened American Jewish experience. "We intend to reaffirm the value of the Diaspora," said Jick. "Jews in America can't live vicariously in another country. If our Judaism is going to be Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus, what...
...Sunday, Hershel Jick, James Gavin's national campaign chairman, joined Wyner's growing group. Other Gavin supporters are expected to follow Jick's lead...