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Even after complications develop, the prognosis is not unrelentingly grim. Laser surgery is saving eyesight. Bypass surgery is salvaging hearts and feet. Dialysis machines and organ transplants are pinch-hitting for nonfunctioning kidneys. Most important, insulin pumps and home-monitoring kits are enabling diabetics to control their blood-sugar levels more precisely than ever before. With good control, diabetic women, once cautioned not to have children, are now delivering healthy babies. Says Dr. Gordon Weir, medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center: "Patients are finally tuning in to the fact that high blood sugar is serious business...
...itself. For nine years a Joslin Center research team led by immunologist Dr. George Eisenbarth has been tracking the appearance of these antibodies in 10,000 close relatives of Type I diabetics. It is now possible for the Joslin team to predict which otherwise symptomless relatives are likely to develop the disease in three years' time. Last May the Joslin and two other medical centers launched a program to treat identified potential diabetics with an antirejection drug less toxic than cyclosporine. The ambitious goal: to block the onset of disease. In the future, researchers imagine launching molecular missiles that will...
...America's Most Wanted the subject of a paperback from Murdoch's HarperCollins publishing house. It surely helped to feature HarperCollins author Bernie Siegel on the cover of Murdoch's magazine New York in June 1989, days before publication of his Peace, Love & Healing. But the company wants to develop more systematic and profitable "synergies...
Especially in uncertain times, fear can quickly overtake fury. The folks back home develop warm feelings toward the legislator who sends out chatty newsletters (printed at government expense), who traces Grandpa's lost Social Security check (by turning the chore over to a government-paid assistant) and fights to keep the local airbase open (though it contributes nothing to the national defense...
Each month the U.S. intends to use $1 billion of the total $20 billion in contributions to help support its military operations in the region. With $13 billion of that earmarked for economic aid, and with the size of the U.S. force growing significantly, a shortfall will develop if the confrontation continues for many months. If that happens, Baker says he will go back for more...