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"Nobody is too concerned," said a crew member who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We went out today, and there was nothing noticeable, no smell or anything. The sailing teams are out too."
Sitting in his office, Weiss scans a computer-enhanced image of a newborn baby lying in intensive care in Saginaw, Michigan, 100 miles north of Detroit. The child was born wrapped inside a rare membrane that causes its skin to peel away in gobs, leaving the baby dangerously exposed to...
Or so the theory goes. Experiments involving restricted diets on primates have produced lower bone mass, a dangerous condition for older people. Moreover, because lab animals do not have the life-span of humans, all this remains highly speculative. Dr. Anna McCormick, chief of the biology section at the National...
All of them are suffering or have suffered from a mental disease known as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which torments its victims with clouds of horrific anxieties and forces them, like primitive priests propitiating unknown gods, to indulge in senseless and repetitive rituals. Not long ago, this disease--along with...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which affects 1% to 3% of Americans, was until recently considered a chronic, untreatable condition. Victims more ordinary than Lady Macbeth and Howard Hughes are haunted by persistent, intrusive thoughts or worries (obsessions), and may spend countless hours performing repetitive rituals (compulsions) such as hand washing, counting...