Word: onsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disease is nontreatable, the burden of knowing can overwhelm the benefits. Nationwide, only 1,500 genetic counselors, most of them drawing on guidelines derived from Brandt's research, have been trained to help people assess such risks. "The protocol developed by Brandt is a paradigm for other late-onset, incurable diseases," says Nancy Wexler, president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation and a leading HD researcher. "It's very responsive to individual needs...
Brandt's painstaking preparation is showing promising results. Of the 63 participants who tested positive, only two have required psychiatric hospitalization, in both cases after the onset of symptoms. Still, not all the others who now show symptoms are having an easy time. A team social worker occasionally has had to bail a patient out of jail. "People make bad decisions," says Brandt, "especially in the early part of the disease...
...does late menopause add years to a woman's life? Researchers aren't certain, but they think high estrogen levels have something to do with it. Studies show the hormone may delay the onset of diseases associated with aging...
...Second Harvest study blames the increases on the onset of state and federal welfare reform. Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin food pantries reported increases; all three passed welfare-reform laws during the past two years. But the decline in middle-income jobs may be culpable as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some of the largest gains in job growth among the lowest-paying categories. Poquoson, Va., resident Tim Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny...
...addictive and fatal nature of their product. By capitulating now, despite all its past success in defeating liability claims by victimized smokers, the industry is at least sparing the nation years of litigation that the companies were doomed to lose sooner or later and that might delay indefinitely the onset of vitally needed tobacco-control measures...