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Well before McCarthy's son was diagnosed, that was the course most parents were following anyway. I recall my parents in the 1970s trying out a range of therapies and various diets for my younger brother Noah, a low-functioning adult autistic: everything from chiropractic adjustments to megavitamin doses to copper bracelets. McCarthy was the first celebrity to embrace this approach publicly and to hit the airwaves pep-talking mothers to never give up. That is what she tells those parents who seek her out here at Generation Rescue - and the 200,000 mothers she has met on her various...
...elsewhere. Some patients have flown to Mexico to be treated with other drugs supposedly effective against AIDS but not approved for use in the U.S. Some sufferers have spent small fortunes on obscure rejuvenating treatments in Switzerland and sheep-gland injections in Rumania, or have turned to holistic healers, megavitamin therapists, even voodoo doctors and spiritualists. Doctors caution AIDS patients about quackery but understand why their advice is often ignored. Says Dr. Michael Lange, an infectious-disease specialist at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan: "If I were told that I was going to die from AIDS in two years...
...assassinated, her husband's near fatal plane crash, Chappaquiddick, which was followed a month later by a third miscarriage, then her son's leg amputation for cancer at twelve. She attempted a succession of cures: reviving a music career that had faltered, then psychiatrists, alcoholism sanitariums, even megavitamin therapy...
Just two months after leaving a Connecticut sanitarium for treatment of psychiatric problems, Joan Kennedy, 38, wife of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, has checked into a private clinic at Capistrano by the Sea, Calif, that specializes in megavitamin therapy. Joan is known to have been suffering from stress since her son Teddy's leg amputation for bone cancer last November. According to friends who saw her at a recent Kennedy family-sponsored tennis benefit in New York she was "a nervous wreck" despite a restful summer of sailing and sunning at Hyannis Port...
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