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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Begin repeatedly addressed Bashir, 34, as "young man," an insult in the Middle East, Bashir returned to Beirut protesting that "they won't let me have my dignity." Amin does not share his brother's fondness for Israel, and the Begin government is determined to treat him with more consideration. Officials say that they will not insist on a peace treaty, and concede that the best guarantee of security along Israel's northern border is a peaceful, united Lebanon...
...many doctors later, Dr. Melvin Van Woert of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital identified the condition that ended her career: myoclonus, a nervous disorder that affects only 2,000 Americans. Van Woert had received a series of grants and special permission from the FDA to treat the disease with the experimental drug L-5HTP (L5-hydroxy-tryptophan), and Dobkin responded well to it. Within eight months she was able to walk with crutches and a neck brace and begin training for a new career as a medical assistant. Eventually she was well enough to have a child...
Dobkin is one of millions of Americans who suffer from diseases so rare there is no profit in making drugs to treat them. A pharmaceutical company's investment, up to $80 million for a new drug, cannot be recouped if only 100,000 people or 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...
...Health and the Environment raised awareness of the issue with testimony from Marjorie Guthrie, the singer's widow, Actor Jack Klugman, whose TV show Quincy devoted an episode to Tourette's syndrome, and researchers like Van Woert. A study by the committee identified 134 drugs to treat orphan diseases, but found that only 58 were on the market or even under investigation by drug manufacturers. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of the orphan products that have been approved by the FDA over the past decade were developed with the help of Government or university funding. Says Subcommittee Chairman...
...almost unshakable beliefs. He finds it very difficult to change his mind. It was torture for him to agree to remove the settlers from the Sinai. He has a single-minded commitment to annex permanently all the other occupied territories. He has a tendency to treat the Palestinians with scorn, to look down on them almost as subhumans and to rationalize his abusive attitude toward them by categorizing all Palestinians as terrorists...