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...summer of 1964, a willowy but pregnant 20-year-old singer named Joan Anderson arrived in Toronto from her native province of Saskatchewan to face a painful decision. Penniless and afraid to tell her parents, she gave birth as a charity patient at a local hospital to a blue-eyed baby girl she named Kelly Dale. The father, a student who had accompanied her to Toronto, was out of the picture, so Joni hastily married folk singer Chuck Mitchell, hoping to make a home for her baby. "I kept trying to find some kind of circumstance where I could stay...
...really helps to get the ball down on offense and pass it around," Senior captain Rob Lyng said. "It really helps you relax into it and play well, and they didn't let us do that. They didn't let us be patient, they controlled the ball and the tempo for the first quarter. You've got to hand it them, they didn't let us get set on offense or defense...
Desirable genes are transferred into tissues which have been removed from patients. The altered, hardier tissue is then reinserted into the patient. If the procedure succeeds, the patients will begin to produce the new protein as though it had always been part of their...
...YORK CITY: News that British pharmaceutical firm Zeneca P.L.C. has taken control of the management of 11 cancer clinics it owns in the U.S. raised a host of ethical questions about whether a drug manufacturer should also oversee a patient's care. No drug manufacturer has ever directly overseen the full range of a clinic?s patient care. While government regulators may allow a relatively small fish like Zeneca to get away with such an arrangement, TIME's Dan Kadlec says they will probably crack down if the industry's heavyweights try to follow suit. "If it gets too cozy...
...addition, patient advocates say, a consumer should ask any prospective health-care provider...