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...YEARS AUDIENCES HAVE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF the undersized lad bearing a single crutch who rides atop his father's shoulder. But Charles Dickens never revealed just what is wrong with Tiny Tim Cratchit, whose life is in chronic peril each Christmas. American pediatric neurologist Donald Lewis apparently couldn't take it anymore. After examining the literature, literally, on Tim, Dr. Lewis has come up with a professional diagnosis: distal renal tubular acidosis. According to A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim lives to enjoy Christmases Yet to Come, thanks to a reformed Scrooge and his trio of conscience-raising phantoms...
ANATOLI BERESLOV Neurologist The young boy's weary eyes light up the moment Anatoli Bereslov, director of Moscow's first cerebral palsy rehabilitation center, approaches the teenager's bed. "You look well, my young one," he says. The compliment motivates the boy to sit up, despite his pain. Bereslov, a former professor of neurology, has inspired many such acts of courage since he became director of the center, opened 21 months ago. His respect for his patients and unpretentious attitude are the best therapy. Doctors with such convictions are rare in Russia's crumbling national health system. "When I first...
Critics, and that includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine...
...body doing to police its overly zealous defenders? Scientists do not expect the uncertainties to persist much longer. "We're at a point where we know when a child would be at a 50 to 100 times greater risk of getting a long list of autoimmune diseases," says Stanford neurologist Lawrence Steinman. "For several diseases we know the bacteria or viruses that can trigger the illness in people with an underlying genetic susceptibility." Improved treatments, reflecting this new knowledge, are beginning to emerge from...
AWAKENINGS. Actors love to play disadvantaged characters; it brings them big challenges and Oscar nominations. Robert De Niro is fine as a victim of sleeping sickness awakened by neurologist Robin Williams. But Penny Marshall's direction is TV-movie ham-fisted, and the film ends up as a case history of good intentions run to ground...