Word: testes
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Discovering how those steroids work and finding which allergens inflame the airways of asthmatics are the goals of O'Byrne and his team of 15 researchers at McMaster. In their studies, O'Byrne will continue to be a test subject. "I wouldn't have learned the things I have about the disease," he says, "if I weren't looking at my own airways, my own cells, my own lungs...
After six months of self-experimentation, Dan says he finally found a concoction that enabled him to kick his habit, but to test it further he became addicted to heroin--and found his brew cured him of that as well. It was a muddy-brown syrup, later named Heantos, made from the leaves, roots and stems of 13 plants and a splash of alcohol. After he announced his breakthrough in 1989, Dan was immediately besieged by addicts. Since then, he says, some 4,000 patients have been treated, and most of them have been cured...
Such thorny human concerns are at the heart of a pioneering research effort that is bent on clinically identifying the long-term emotional and social effects of early genetic testing. Directed by neuropsychologist Jason Brandt of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the project enlists the talents of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, geneticists and ethicists to track the consequences of testing for the genetic mutation that causes deadly Huntington's disease. The program, says Brandt, "is seeking to determine how best to offer this test...
This summer a 44-year-old Baltimore native named Jack was waiting to have the first of at least three pre-test counseling sessions, spaced over a two-month period. Jack had already cleared the neurological exam that, if it had turned up HD symptoms, would have made testing redundant. Though Jack is healthy, he was well versed in the disease: his grandmother and mother died from it, and he knows there is a fifty-fifty chance that he has inherited the time-bomb gene. Two siblings have tested negative, two others positive. One sister is battling symptoms, including...
...business, leaving him to search for new career options. "It became evident to me that I didn't have control over my life," he said a few days before the counseling session. "This is one small piece where I can get some control." Jack thought that a negative test result--one that showed no abnormality in the gene IT-15 on chromosome 4--would inspire him to consider moving to another part of the country. And if the news was bad? "Maybe I would be less of a Type A and not work as hard," he said...