Word: neurologists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know was his best friend?" Martha asks tearfully. "He's never said anything about it for 18 years. I don't know if he even remembers what happened." Last December, Bobby finally offered some kind of an explanation. "Voices already picked him ((Morris)) a murderer," he told a neurologist. "They picked me. I don't know why. They picked me and said...
...vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather. Barbara Humberger of Austin began going native in 1989 after an unusual cold spell killed many of the nonnative shrubs that surrounded her lakeside home. Her property shimmers with blackfoot daisies that bloom from early spring until the first fall frost. UCLA neurologist Andrew Charles wanted an attractive but drought-resistant cover for the steep hillside behind his house. His solution was to plant deep-rooted California lilacs punctuated by the orchid-like blossoms of sticky monkey flowers...
...lurch like a drunkard. To see double images of a coffee cup, a friend's face, a newspaper. To feel dizzy because rooms seem to spin like merry-go-rounds. The onset of such symptoms 10 years ago sent Chicago sales representative Suzanne Arens, now 39, stumbling to a neurologist. The diagnosis: multiple sclerosis. "It was devastating," she recalls. "The disease progressed to where I would have an attack every six months. I was hospitalized three times." For the past five years, however, Arens has managed to remain symptom-free, the result, she is convinced, of regular treatments with...
...chronic viral infections. So in 1984 they began testing gamma interferon, one of the body's own antiviral weapons, in MS patients. To their horror, patients became dramatically worse. The false step proved instructive however. "It told us that gamma interferon was a major player in this disease," explains neurologist Dr. Kenneth Johnson of the University of Maryland at Baltimore...
Still, the appearance of any compound that can positively alter the course of this relentless disease is cause for cautious celebration. "Half a loaf," observes University of Chicago neurologist Dr. Barry Arnason, whose research helped stimulate interest in beta interferon, "is a lot better than no bread." If the FDA goes along with the panel's recommendation and approves the drug, says Stephen Reingold, chief of research for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, "I predict it will be used widely -- and it should...