Word: ailments
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...later to be killed by a falling tree. Tietou's uncle is going blind, and Uncle's girlfriend, star of an army theater troupe, is sent to jail because she refuses an order to have sex with political leaders. Shujuan's second husband (Li Xuejian) dies from a liver ailment aggravated by the rampant malnutrition of the early '60s. And during the spiteful frenzy of the Cultural Revolution, Shujuan's third husband (Guo Baochang) is humiliated and beaten by the righteous Red Guard. What is worse than young American rebels without a cause? Young Chinese cadres with...
...great polio epidemic of the 1940s and '50s swept through the U.S., infecting millions and leaving some 640,000 (mostly children) 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...
...very heavy for me. I went through like two or three years where I just shut myself off and those were years where it was incredibly scary to be a gay man. We lived in the plague in San Francisco. We would see people dropping from this mysterious ailment. We had no idea how people got it, the process of the disease. It was frightening and all you wanted to do was just go and hide. You didn't want to come near it, or you didn't want to come near people. They were years of complete antisociability...
...once. So scientists use special enzymes to chop the chromosomes into small manageable pieces and pick out small identifiable stretches -- called markers -- on each segment. When researchers are searching for a disease gene, they look for a marker that is common to all people who suffer from that ailment. If one is found, then the defective gene is probably located somewhere near that marker. The problem is that although the gene hunters know where the marker is located on the chromosome, they don't necessarily know how close it lies to the suspect gene...
People who think they're coming down with the flu, especially those living in the Southwest, should beware: the aches, fevers and coughs could mean something far worse. A mysterious ailment emerged last spring in which flulike symptoms become life threatening as tiny blood vessels throughout the lungs begin leaking plasma. Gasping for breath, victims literally start to drown in their own body fluids. The outcome in 27 of the first 45 known cases of the illness has been a quick death...