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...DIED. Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS patient and activist who agitated for experimental medical treatments; of cardiac arrest; in Joshua Tree, California. In 1995, after a two-year fight for approval, Getty received bone-marrow cells from a baboon-the first animal-to-human bone-marrow transplant-to boost his immune system. Though his body rejected the cells and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later banned such transplants, he used his visibility to fight on, successfully getting more doctors to perform organ transplants on AIDS patients, whose prognoses were often deemed too bleak to justify such surgery...
...anorexic patient's inability to see her body as it is has long fascinated researchers. While other manifestations of the illness (an obsession with weight and food, an intense fear of being fat) can be more readily traced to psychological distress, the anorexic's distorted perception of herself has suggested to many a biological abnormality - that something is amiss in the brain itself...
Still, many doctors, like Binckley's, fail to spot the potentially fatal problem in an older person because they're not looking for it. And in a country where obesity seems to be running rampant, a featherweight figure is often prized. "A doctor may see a slender patient and say, 'Here's one without that problem,'" explains Andres Pumariega, a psychiatrist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "It's become a silent epidemic...
...brain tumor. His film-school buddy, Wan, was unemployed. "I would have done anything to be healthy again," says Whannell, now 29, who, it turned out, was actually just suffering from stress headaches. When he felt better, he wrote the script for Saw, in which a terminally ill cancer patient, Jigsawultimately played in all three movies by the creepy character actor Tobin Bellforces people to consider what they're prepared to do to stay alive. Using $7,000 of Whannell's savings, the pair shot a shocking 10-min. film in which Whannell played one of Jigsaw's victims...
...March 1962—the spring of their senior year—Tribe and Alschuler were scheduled to debate in Charleston, W.Va., but Tribe fell ill and went to the Stillman Infirmary instead. While there that night, he quickly got to know another patient, Carolyn Kreye, a student at the Graduate School of Education. “They basically spent their first year of graduate school falling in love,” Alschuler says of the Tribe and Kreye, who married...