Word: onsets
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...travelled to his ancestral village in Quon Dong, China to see the home his family fled at the onset of the Japanese invasion during World...
...toxic compounds in the blood that are understood to cause the disease. But the oil cannot reverse nerve damage, often resulting in blindness and paralysis, that has already taken place. Nonetheless, Dr. Hugo Moser of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, believes Lorenzo's oil may delay the onset of symptoms. "We know that it's not 100% preventive," says Moser, who is conducting a five-year study of 80 boys who have inherited the gene for the disease but started taking Lorenzo's oil while they are still healthy. "The question that still needs to be answered...
...road to science is paved with good intentions. Gregory Aller had volunteered for an experiment designed to study the early years of schizophrenia, the onset of schizophrenic relapse, how to predict relapse, and how to determine who would and who would not be affected by withdrawal of medication. In the short term, that meant Aller would get medicine to make him well. But the long-range realities were harrowing. If he got well, the experiment would follow Greg as medication was withdrawn. If he then became ill, he could fall into the worst stages of psychotic relapse. Last March, Keith...
APOE, which is located on chromosome 19, can appear in the form of allele APOE-2, APOE-3 or APOE-4. The study's subjects, who were taken from 42 families with a history of late-onset Alzheimer's had one APOE-4 allele from each parent. The study found them eight times as likely to develop Alzheimer...
Haines said, however, that results on research on a broader spectrum of the population have yet to be obtained. "It's in progress--we're doing it, a lot of other groups are now doing it," he said. "We'll look at the families we have that have early-onset Alzheimer's as well as the general population...