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...Scientists have the best evidence yet that immunotherapy- using the body's immune system to fight disease -- is an effective way to treat certain cancers. After giving the genetically engineered drug Interleukin 2 in high doses to 283 patients with spreading kidney or skin cancer, researchers found that a significant number stayed in remission for periods from seven to 91 months...
...came to a war, the U.S. and South Korea both insist they would win in the end -- but at a prohibitive cost in casualties and damage. Economic sanctions are not very attractive either. The North says it will treat them as a declaration of war, but instead of retaliating with an all-out attack, it might quit the nonproliferation treaty or engage in small-scale military action, such as fire fights across the DMZ. Because the North is already poor and trades little, some experts doubt that an embargo would have much effect unless China cut off oil sales, which...
...Poisson affair was so unsettling because his work dealt with matters of life and death. One of his main studies was part of the research that led in 1985 to a major change in the way surgeons treat breast cancer. Until that time, patients almost always had the entire breast removed -- a mastectomy. But the new research showed that a less disfiguring procedure called lumpectomy -- in which only the tissue surrounding the tumor is cut out -- is just as effective when the cancer is in its early stages...
...with varying degrees of paralysis, survivors are being revisited by a degenerative muscle condition that has precisely the same symptoms as a mild case of polio. The ailment is known as acute paralytic poliomyelitis sequelae, or postpolio syndrome. Doctors aren't certain what causes it or how best to treat it (for many years physicians prescribed exercises that exacerbated the condition), but they believe the problem will get worse before it gets better. Before the end of the decade, by one estimate, postpolio syndrome will strike 40% to 50% of the polio survivors, forcing many in their...
What can be done to help the postpolio sufferers? Not much, unfortunately. There are only experimental treatments. A steroid called prednisone, usually used to treat immune-system diseases like multiple sclerosis, seems to help in postpolio as well, reducing fatigue and increasing endurance. And Dr. Marinos Dalakas at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is experimenting with nerve growth factor, a protein that spurs the proliferation of nerve axons...