Word: wexlers
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...category of consumer goods that falls somewhere between mass market and prestige. That's why Fiske, a boyish-looking 43-year-old in a dark suit, is at the Hudson Hotel: he has just launched a new line of skin-care products developed by dermatologist to the stars Patricia Wexler. "This," says the soft-spoken Fiske, "represents another step in the transformation of Bath & Body Works from raspberry shower gel to a modern apothecary of beauty and well-being...
...Fiske and his team are pumping sales is by creating brands with buzz that customers have to trek to Bath & Body Works to find. In addition to making antiaging cleanser and lip plumper with Wexler, Fiske has paired up with L'Occitane to sell the new Le Couvent des Minimes line of bath salts and pillow mists and with the American Girl doll company to make body wash and hair gel aimed at tweens. Bath & Body Works has bought other brands outright. In late 2003 the company snapped up the C.O. Bigelow name and this June swallowed Slatkin...
Last month that test was given for the first time to two young adults at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Both tested positive, and must now live with the grim certainty of developing the disease, which causes progressive dementia and loss of body control. And suddenly Nancy Wexler is no longer sure she wants to know her fate. "Before the test, you can always say, 'Well, it can't happen to me,' " says Wexler, who is president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. "After the test, if it's positive, you can't say that anymore...
...Wexler is not alone in her dilemma. More than 100,000 Americans with a family history of Huntington's live with the knowledge that they may have inherited the defective gene. Like Wexler, many have decided not to have children, and are likely to be ambivalent about taking the test once it is no longer experimental. Recognizing how devastating a positive test result could be, Johns Hopkins, Columbia University and Massachusetts General Hospital are conducting a three-year study to determine the emotional impact of early diagnosis. "We're trying to find out what type of psychological care these people...
...strikes about one in every 20,000 people eventually killing so many cells at the center of the brain that a gaping hole is created. But the first symptoms, such as irritability and depression, are often subtle. "We just thought it was an extreme mid-life crisis," says Wexler, recalling the onset of her mother's illness. "We blamed it all on Betty Friedan." Next come the neurological and motor effects that are often mistaken for drunkenness: slowed thought processes, slurred speech, impaired memory and problem-solving abilities. In the later stages of the disease, the patient is seized...