Word: polio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About half the nation's two-year-olds are not fully immunized against mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough and five other childhood diseases. But critics said Clinton's original proposal, at $1.1 billion, was too costly and that parents' failure to take youngsters to public clinics, where free shots are already available, was more to blame than steep vaccine prices. Administration officials have acknowledged that among the major problems are clinic hours that are too short and lines that are too long...
...reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly everywhere he practiced. Paula remembers marveling at his high spirits as he set off with a limp -- the trace of his childhood polio -- last Wednesday at about 9:10. He drove to the Pensacola Women's Medical Services in Cordova Square, a suburban shopping center tending toward dress stores, doctors' offices, delis and weight-loss clinics...
Traditionally, doctors inject patients with live but mutated forms of viruses which cause diseases such as polio, measles and small pox in order to elicit a mild immune response. The body then relies on its immune "memory" to respond and effectively to another attack, and becomes protected against future infections...
Patient pressure groups have been a potent force in American medicine for decades. The 13 specialty centers that make up the National Institutes of Health, the epicenter of America's biomedical-research enterprise, are monuments to special-interest advocacy. Polio vaccines grew out of pivotal research funded primarily by the March of Dimes. But as the organizations grew, under the leadership of professional lobbyists and fund raisers, they opened themselves to the charge that they had lost touch with their grass roots and become a part of the system they were supposed to be influencing...
...very selective in the children she puts into her family, so that they fit in age-wise and with handicaps that she knows she can be of help to." Farrow has recently taken in Tam, 12, a blind Vietnamese girl, and Isaiah, an American crack baby. "Mia herself had polio," says Tremitiere, "so she's tuned in to children with physical difficulties...