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Last month, investigators in the U.S. reported good test results for a monthly dose of the common antidrinking drug naltrexone - a medication that currently must be taken every day to be effective. But naltrexone is controversial because for some, it doesn't do anything to reduce the craving for alcohol until those addicts actually take a drink, whereupon it helps them resist taking more - a twisted bit of physiological irony if ever there was one. Twelve-step believers say the only proper response to alcoholism is total abstinence, and that a drug that allows you to drink a little puts...
...change. There is now a quick and reliable way to check the viability of eggs before fertilization and implantation begin - and two months from now, a previously childless 41-year-old woman will give birth to the baby who proves it. (Read TIME's 1978 article, "The First Test-Tube Baby...
...TIME's 1978 cover "The Test-Tube Baby...
...victory. No. 9 junior Sandra Mumanachit also recorded a 3-0 sweep. This was Mumanachit’s first match of the year in which she did not record a 9-0 whitewash game. The Crimson’s younger players faced a tougher test but emerged victorious. After winning the first set, freshman No. 4 Emily Park dropped the second set, 7-9, but rallied to win the final two convincingly, 9-3, 9-1, to earn the 3-1 victory. Sophomore Alexandra Zindman dropped a tight third set, 8-10, but won a close-fought fourth...
...Because no one has used embryonic stem cells or the cells derived from them in people before, the FDA was particularly cautious. The trial that it approved is what's known as a Phase 1. It will involve no more than a dozen patients and is not designed to test the effectiveness of the cells. Rather, it will simply monitor the safety of inserting them into people. The researchers will be looking for whether the cells cause tumors, trigger an immune response or start to migrate away from the spinal-cord area. "There are certainly unknowns that...