Word: polio
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...serious men have attempted an answer. One is Jonas Salk. "When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine," he said of his early clinical tests, "you don't sleep well for two or three months." So Salk tested the vaccine on himself, his wife and his own children. This is an extraordinary response. It certainly could not have improved his sleep. It did not even solve the ethical dilemma. After all, the Salk children were put at risk, and they were no less innocent than the rest. But by involving his own kin (and himself), Salk arranged to suffer...
...exactly the right direction," says Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Lewis C. Cantley, adding, "Critics say no treatment may ever come out of it, but a good analysis is polio. Much money was spent on the design of a better iron lung machine, but not on the idea of using a serum. With cancer, much less has been spent on clinical treatment, but we may get the breakthrough from a different line of a research...
Since the revolutionary Marxist Sandinista toppled Samoza dictatorship in 1979, the infant mortality rate has been cut one-third and polio vaccinations are up four times, Schuster said...
Once in Central America. Lester says, he frequently left the group and showed up unannounced at local health care facilities. In Nicaragua, he observed an impressive commitment to health care on the part of the Sandinistas and tremendous improvement against polio, typhoid and a host of childhood diseases...
...once fought and died. Yet brawn alone did not make Italy's Francesco Damiani, 25, the European champion in the amateur super-heavyweight division. Much of the credit belongs to his older brother Marco, who struggled to become a world-class boxer despite the handicaps imposed by childhood polio. Realizing at last that the dream was beyond his grasp, Marco pushed the oversize, underachieving Francesco into the ring instead. Says the younger brother now: "I would love to have seen Marco prove himself, but it was not to be. He has proved himself through me." Francesco's record...