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...cause of Alzheimer's and its cure remain unknown. This week, however, an important breakthrough will be announced in Washington that may change this bleak picture. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, scientists from New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine will reveal that they have identified what could be the first fully accurate diagnostic indicator of Alzheimer's in living people. The find could lead to improved therapy and even, in the next several years, to an understanding of what causes the illness...
...September the Soviet weekly New Times reported that Jacob Segal, a retired East Berlin biologist who is unknown to Western AIDS experts, claimed that the virus originated in biological-warfare experiments at Fort Detrick, Md. Segal's allegation resurfaced in Zambia, then in London's Sunday Express, which cited support for the charge from Robert B. Strecker, an internist in Glendale, Calif., and John R. Seale, a British expert in venereal diseases. Strecker, who has written that the AIDS virus could have originated in either a natural or an artificial combination of viruses, dismisses the biological- warfare angle as "just...
Connolly's injury, a bruised kidney, may be the most costly for the Crimson. The senior split end was leading Harvard in receptions, yards, and receiving TDs when he went down. Connolly will miss today's game, and his status for the rest of the season is unknown...
...year. The senior lineman was running onto the field for the second half at Princeton when he tripped over a section of the runway--an area where long jump and high jump events are staged--and injured his ankle. Watson's status for today's game is unknown...
Such individuals obviously live under a dark cloud of medical uncertainty; how many of these individuals will go on to develop AIDS or AIDS Related Complex (ARC) is currently unknown. The latency period between infection and disease, though still not precisely known, can be at least as long as five years...