FEATURE: A GENE PREDISPOSING TO SCHIZOPHRENIA?
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Although the term "schizophrenia" is 80 years old, there is still no universally accepted definition for the disease, and no consensus about its causes. Nonetheless, . . .
FEATURE: VITAMIN A AND CANCER
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In recent years, the health consequences of consuming retinoids (vitamin A and its isomers and derivatives) have raised both great hopes and concerns. On the . . .
FEATURE: REACTION TO NCI'S CONTROVERSIAL "ALERT"
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Last May, the National Cancer Institute mailed an "urgent" clinical alert to 13,000 cancer specialists and cancer organizations that was newsworthy as much for its . . .
FEATURE: ARE SLEEP-DEPRIVED RESIDENTS IMPAIRED?
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Following the celebrated Libby Zion case, in which a grand jury blamed a young woman's death on the bungling of sleep-deprived residents at the New . . .
FEATURE: ASTHMA DEATHS ON THE RISE
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Since the emergence over the past 25 years of specific and effective drugs to treat asthma, an odd thing has happened: the prevalence, hospitalization rate, . . .
FEATURE: DRINKING DURING PREGNANCY: A SAFE LEVEL?
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Several recent studies further complicate the task of advising women on how much alcohol it is safe to drink. On the one hand, new evidence . . .
FEATURE: PCR: BREAKTHROUGH IN MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS
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Of the array of new products spilling from the biotechnology labs, there is one that deserves particular attention: the new rapid gene-amplification technique called polymerase . . .
FEATURE: IS THE CERVICAL CAP SAFE?
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After a nearly 30-year hiatus, contraceptive cervical caps are back on the U.S. market, despite questions about their safety. This spring, the Food and Drug . . .
FEATURE: PROGRESS NOTES: HOME FROM STOCKHOLM
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This year's international conference on AIDS in Stockholm seemed to belong to the epidemiologists and clinicians, those counting the dead and dying and at-risk, and . . .
