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...able to hide from the immune system, preventing the body from fighting the invader itself," Dredge explains. So in addition to the drug's tumor-fighting properties, thalidomide's ability to activate the immune system is crucial to beat the disease. At Guy's Hospital, also in London, Steven Schey has been treating 24 patients suffering from multiple myeloma with Actimid, another thalidomide analogue. Previous treatment regimens had been ineffective on these patients, but Schey found a 65% response rate to Actimid. He also noticed that the drug lessened the feelings of lethargy and nausea that afflict chemotherapy patients...
...does best, and these annual special issues have become a showcase for our prizewinning science staff. They are also an opportunity to tap the expertise of outside writers we admire. In this issue: Dr. Andrew Weil, writing about alternative treatments for anxiety, depression and other disorders; M.I.T. psychology professor Steven Pinker on the intricate relationship between genes and behavior; Dr. Mehmet Oz on how he uses meditation to speed the recovery of heart-transplant patients at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. We also had the pleasure of collaborating on this project with our friends at ABC World...
...test) and partly from its being at the tired end of a line of movies about weird or failed show-biz types (Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane). But Clooney turns out to have a flair, puckish and audacious, for his new job. Learning from working with Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers and from watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle. He's already a real director. If he ever tires of his name above the title, he could...
HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said Materna “has a history of inappropriate behavior which she had been warned about previously...
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Steven Spielberg takes a breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman?...