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...sperm), or it won't grow properly. If it has two paternal imprints, the placenta grows but not the embryo. If it has two maternal imprints, the embryo grows but not the supporting placenta. Defects in imprinting in humans are thought to contribute to such neurodevelopmental ailments as Prader-Willi syndrome and perhaps some forms of autism. Genes that have lost their imprinting have also shown up in brain tumors...
...fewer need the product. Such diseases and their drug treatments therefore are said to be "orphaned." Orphan diseases include cystic fibrosis, a deadly hereditary disorder that affects 40,000 Americans; Tourette's syndrome, a neurological abnormality characterized by tics and involuntary outbursts of swearing (100,000 Americans); Prader-Willi syndrome, a children's ailment that causes huge weight gains and often kills its victims before they are 20 (2,000); Wilson's disease, a condition marked by abnormal accumulation of copper in the liver and brain (1,000); Huntington's chorea, the degenerative disease...
...Mary Berquam, a little girl with leukemia, to the pediatrics ward of a university hospital to die. But the resident, McMillan, overrules her father's demand to let her die in peace. "I had no time for goofy parents," recalls the intern. Enter the cold, stern hematology chief, Prader. He persuades the Ber-quams to have Mary treated for the sake of scientific research. Mary's condition seems to improve...
...fills with pus and she bleeds into her skin and her brain. "You son of a bitch!" shouts her father. "Haven't you tortured her enough?" He goes berserk and tries to slug every doctor in sight. The resident gives the girl special emergency treatments, including a respirator. Prader, the hematologist, now, unexpectedly, opposes the resident. "Don't you think it's time to stop being heroic?" he asks. "Don't you think enough is ever enough?" Says the resident: "There is no reason not to use everything we have," and he challenges Prader to "turn...
...last week were wondering whether their lock would hold even long enough for a yelp for help. For nearly a month, the nation's two leading par ties had been locked in a noisy wrangle over defense spending, and in the midst of it, conservative Defense Minister Georg Prader was hard put to explain how he blew this year's entire arms budget on 36 Swiss Oerlikon antiair craft guns. That brought the self-righteous charge from a Socialist Party news paper that the price of one Oerlikon would pay for 125 new workers' apartments. More...
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