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...find out whether the hormone has the same healing effect in people, Ohio State's Glaser and his wife Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a psychologist at the same institution, are enrolling married couples in an unorthodox study in which each spouse's arm is blistered and then covered with a serum-collecting device. Over a 24-hour observation period, the couples discuss positive aspects of their marriage and mates as well as points of contention, such as finances or in-laws. The Glasers will analyze how levels of oxytocin change during these discussions, along with rates of healing...
...cancer are too advanced for treatment by the time they are detected, but researchers at Duke University are working on a blood test that could detect the disease in its earliest stages, when the cancer may still be treatable. Their aim is to detect traces of a protein, called serum amyloid A, that is elevated in cancer patients but not in healthy people...
Another site mentioned by the allies in the walk-up to the war was the Amiriyah Serum and Vaccine Institute, which both British intelligence and the CIA suspected was part of a biological-warfare program...
Posner elaborates in startling detail how U.S. interrogators used drugs--an unnamed "quick-on, quick-off" painkiller and Sodium Pentothal, the old movie truth serum--in a chemical version of reward and punishment to make Zubaydah talk. When questioning stalled, according to Posner, CIA men flew Zubaydah to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with Special Forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions...
...meantime, doctors are concentrating on refining treatment procedures. They are mainly relying on a combination of antivirals such as ribavirin, immunosuppressant steroids that stop the immune system from devouring itself and a serum containing antibodies from recovered SARS patients that is injected into current victims. The cocktail seems to be working, with most of the deaths thus far confined to the elderly or those with pre-existing medical conditions. Doctors also suspect that as the disease is passed on second- and thirdhand, the virus might lose its potency. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of service at the Prince of Wales...