Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid raising false hopes among cancer victims, researchers tend to use caution in reporting even the most promising advances in treatment for the dread disease. Yet two articles published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, while containing caveats, seemed reason for guarded optimism. Both dealt with a controversial treatment known as adoptive immunotherapy, which involves the use of a naturally produced substance, interleukin-2 (IL- 2), to bolster a patient's immune system. Both reported striking improvements in some patients with advanced cases of cancer...
...work for one man and could not be tolerated by the other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs in a remarkable experiment conducted at La Raza Medical Center in Mexico City and reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The results: one man, previously confined to a wheelchair, can now play soccer with his son and hopes to return to work; the other is no longer incapacitated by incessant trembling and can speak clearly for the first time in years...
...Madrazo's amazement, the effects of the operations, performed in March and October of last year, became apparent in a matter of days. In the case of one of the two patients, he noted in the Journal, "functional recovery occurred on an almost daily basis." Both men are now leading normal lives, says Madrazo, and one has resumed managing his own farm. The loss of one adrenal gland has not presented any complications. Nor is rejection a problem, because the grafted tissue is the patient's own. Encouraged, Madrazo's team has tried the procedure on eight other patients. They...
...Japan, the Administration's tough action sparked widespread consternation. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, editorialized that the sanctions were "detrimental to the interests of American consumers." The liberal daily Asahi Shimbun declared darkly that "trade war has now come about." In Manhattan, the usually pro-Reaganaut Wall Street Journal warned that "high-stakes trade retaliation, like Russian roulette, is a dangerous game, and the world doesn't benefit when the President of the United States leads by bad example...
These findings were reported in this month's issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, a medical journal. Med School researchers who are members of the Institute for Health Research, a joint program of the Harvard Community Health Plan and the University, wrote the report...