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...report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine challenges this assumption. In a study of more than 2 million military recruits, doctors at Washington's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology found that sickle-cell carriers run 40 times the normal risk of sudden death when they undergo the rigors of basic training. The danger appears to increase with...
...handgun. Stricter criteria were required in some counties under local ordinances, which the state law supersedes. In Broward County, for example, gun-permit applicants had to pay a $500 fee, pass an extensive police check, complete a handgun safety course, have an approved reason for carrying a gun and undergo a psychological examination. As a result, the county had only 24 outstanding licenses for concealed weapons...
...drug or vaccine must undergo years of laboratory analysis in test tubes and animals before it ever reaches the public. But there always comes a point when people have to serve as guinea pigs. Last week officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., announced that the first U.S.-approved human tests of a potential AIDS vaccine would begin this fall. The preparation, developed by MicroGeneSys of West Haven, Conn., consists of the outershell protein of the AIDS virus, which researchers hope will stimulate the body into producing an immune response against the intact invader...
Should researchers pinpoint that genetic defect, the next step will be to develop a simple diagnostic test. Doctors now recommend that everyone over 50 periodically undergo routine, if unpleasant, examinations with a proctosigmoidoscope, a hollow, lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for signs of cancer. A blood test that could alert people that they carried a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer might motivate them to seek frequent checkups...
...minutes. "When the radio traffic announcer advises to stay clear of a certain area, I drive right to that point," he says, figuring that the warning has cleared the congestion by dispersing most commuters onto different routes. Others, like Kathi Douglas, a recent graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, undergo an attitude change. "I'm laid back and talkative, yet once I get on the road, I have no respect for rules and regulations," says Douglas. "You get to be really aggressive because you think it's the only way to get out of this madness...