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Follicular lymphoma cannot currently be cured, but with chemotherapy and other treatments, a patient can usually achieve remission. The cancer almost always returns, however, and each subsequent remission tends to be shorter than the previous one. In 2001, Bendandi began vaccine therapy on 25 patients who had achieved a second remission with chemotherapy. The vaccine did not have any effect on five of the subjects, but the other 20 who did respond received a total of 10 vaccinations over 26 months. "Partway through the study, one of my patients - a hairdresser - came to me and said, 'I know the treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disease is the Remedy | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...serve is huge, I’m attacking it more,” Nguyen said. “That relates to shorter points, shorter games—it’s excellent...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Tennis Starts Ivy Season in Style | 4/8/2007 | See Source »

...short term, some of the northern, industrialized countries may actually benefit. Canada, Russia and parts of the U.S. will for a time experience shorter winters and bumper harvests. But the already arid southwestern U.S. could become a permanent dust bowl, while Australia will see intensified droughts and agricultural decline throughout the country's populated south and east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Heat Over the Planet | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...Analysis concluded that kids with physically absent fathers were up to three times more likely to use drugs and engage in criminal behavior. Last month, an Israeli study reported that children with absent fathers were more likely to have trouble forming new relationships, whether the absences were permanent or shorter term. When children reach school age, Australian psychologist Paul Amato found, fathers are even more important to self-esteem than mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dads' Dilemma | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...seen the entire body of the female victim and described her as a young woman of Asian descent, in her 30s and about the same height as the male victim. Gerber's wife is from the Philippines but is 58 years old and about a half-foot shorter than Gerber. Taylor also noted that the man's skin was very dark and that he had dark hair on his chest and head. Gerber is gray-haired. Helen Taylor, director of the crematorium, said she was unable to identify either corpse from the photographs, but she added that she found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEAD WRONG? | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

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