Word: polio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incensed by the fact that the three F.D.R. sculptures have no sign of a wheelchair, leg braces, cane or crutches, all part of F.D.R.'s support system. There is, however, a sentence on one of the slabs pointing out that he could not walk unaided after his 1921 polio attack. "Not sufficient," says Michael Deland, a board member of the National Organization on Disability, who is confined to a wheelchair. "F.D.R.'s disability was simply too central to his very being." Hugh Gallagher, author of F.D.R.'s Splendid Deception, a book detailing how Roosevelt veiled his disability (only two pictures...
Harvard billed this as the best thing since the polio vaccine. And money-wise, before the recent obstacles, it promised to be a great deal. Engineered by one of Harvard's most brilliant and arrogant administrators, Medical School executive dean David M. Bray, the arrangement called for Harvard to keep all patents (a veritable gold mine: revenue from the University's patents are going up 20 percent a year) and for the companies to pay Harvard steep licensing fees. The University would also get rental fees from biotech firms that plan to rent out floors in center, and there...
Salk and vaccine. the words somehow belong together-like Fleming and penicillin or Einstein and relativity. So when Dr. Jonas Salk, the developer of the first effective vaccine against polio, announced eight years ago that he was coming out of retirement to tackle AIDS, many people cheered-especially the growing numbers of patients infected with hiv. Who better to lead the charge against the current plague than the conqueror of an infamous childhood scourge? Within the scientific community, though, there was more doubt than expectation. AIDS was a tougher target than polio, and few experts believed that Salk's approach...
Reagan's act of candor will undoubtedly raise public awareness of Alzheimer's and give support for research a powerful boost. In that way, he will walk in distinguished company once again. Franklin Roosevelt launched the March of Dimes that ultimately conquered polio. Dwight Eisenhower's frankness about his heart disease changed the way the world treated this affliction. The publicized bouts of Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan with breast cancer led thousands of women to undergo mammograms...
Biologists based their optimism on the effectiveness of antibiotics. According to an article in the American Scientist, smallpox, tuberculosis, polio and all other major infectious diseases were considered nearly eradicated...