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Bush's decision to join the Loeb tribute highlights the battle that is already under way for the mantle of Reaganism. For five years Bush has acted as an unabashed cheerleader for Reagan's programs in an effort to shed the moderate taint that can destroy a Republican hopeful these days. Nevertheless, the loyal Vice President is likely to face a strong challenge on the right, notably from New York Congressman Jack Kemp, who missed the dinner...
This rude shock paled in comparison to the one I got 20 minutes later, when I entered a Woolco and saw another Santa. This one declared that the other one was an impostor sent by the Heat Miser to destroy him, but be did not convince me in the least. He was Vietnamese, and could not have weighed over 130 pounds...
...been waged with three often brutal weapons, the so-called cut, burn and poison methods of rooting out tumors: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. But slowly, in laboratories and medical centers around the world, a fourth approach has been evolving. The idea: rallying the body's own immunological forces to destroy malignant cells. Last week scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., revealed some of the most promising results to date in the use of this new category called immunotherapy. In an unusual "special report," published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Steven Rosenberg...
...while the ability to destroy lethal blood clots may increase the chances of survival in some patients, it may have little or no effect in others. In many instances of heart attack, the coronary artery is not obstructed by a blood clot but by a fatty deposit known as a plaque. Since plaques are not susceptible to drugs like t-PA, other methods must be used to unblock the artery...
...group of Harvard researchers is experimenting with a technique which uses lasers to burn out the troublesome plaques. Although, the idea is not entirely new, it has always been plagued by the problem of how to destroy the plaque itself without damaging the normal tissue around it in the process. At the Washington conference, Martin Prince and his colleagues from Massachusetts General announced the success of a new technique...