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...University of Michigan's Dr. Stevo Julius reported that even people with "borderline" hypertension may sustain damage to their heart and blood vessels. Such patients, argued Julius, should seek more aggressive blood-pressure treatment to lower their risk. Dr. Michael Horan, associate director of cardiology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, agreed: "The message is that borderline patients should no longer be neglected. These people could already be in trouble...
AIDS is in the class of diseases whose origins we understand quite well. It is behaviorally induced and behaviorally preventable. In that sense it is in the same moral class as lung cancer, the majority of whose victims get it through voluntary behavior well known to be highly dangerous. For lung cancer the behavior is smoking; for AIDS, unsafe sex (not, it might be noted, homosexuality) and IV drug...
...society we do not refuse either to treat or research lung cancer simply because its sufferers brought it on themselves. But we would find it somewhat perverse and distasteful if lung cancer sufferers began demonstrating wildly, blaming society and government for their problems, and demanding that they be first in line for a cure...
...have operated on fetuses, fixing urinary- tract blockages, for example, or inserting needles to drain excess fluid from the brain. But never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
...retaining wall just out front. Five more feet and he would have landed in the waiting room. The trauma team dragged him out of the car, raced him into the emergency room, cut off his clothes and tried to use suction equipment to get the blood out of his lungs. A thoracic surgeon was called in to locate the bullet, which had entered his Adam's apple and been deflected into his lung. Hospital officials figured that they would get roughly $71 from the state for treating the patient. The first two hours of his care had already cost...