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Dr. [Julie L. Gerberding] cautioned doctors to consider West Nile fever in patients who experienced headaches and fevers after transfusions. After transfusion-associated cases of West Nile were first identified last year, federal officials said they realized the need for a test to screen the blood. Blood banks asked donors about symptoms of recent illnesses. But the West Nile virus can be present in blood before symptoms develop or even among people who report few, if any, symptoms. In some areas where West Nile is particularly prevalent this summer, blood banks are testing each donor's blood. Those states include Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota, Dr. Gerberding said

A 27-year-old medical researcher who acquired a mild case of SARS while working in a laboratory has recovered and was discharged from a hospital. He will be in quarantine at home for two weeks

''Our greatest concern was that this was Lassa fever,'' said Dr. Gregory J. Martin, a Navy captain and the program director of infectious disease fellowships at Bethesda Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Martin led the military medical team that examined the marines at Andrews Air Force Base and later cared for them at Bethesda. As of today, the malaria outbreak has affected 54 of the 625 troops who were in Liberia. The patients include three Navy corpsmen embedded with the marines. Two marines are being treated in the military's regional medical center in Landstuhl, Germany, and 11 aboard the Iwo Jima, Dr. Martin said. Dr. Gregory J. Martin led the military medical team that examined and cared for the marines ill with malaria. Thirty-one marines had become sick aboard two Navy ships, the Carter Hall and the Iwo Jima, right, after spending two weeks ashore in Liberia in August. (Photo by United States Navy/Reuters); (Photo by Marty Katz for The New York Times)

Dr. Marc Feldmann and Sir Ravinder N. Maini of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London won the clinical medical research award for a discovery that led to development of powerful drugs that can soothe joint pain and restore mobility among people with rheumatoid arthritis. The therapy, known as anti-TNF, for tumor necrosis factor, has also benefited people with other autoimmune disorders, like the bowel ailment Crohn's disease and a form of arthritis caused by psoriasis. Feldmann, an Australian immunologist, and Sir Ravinder, who was born in India, overcame major scientific skepticism when they began their anti-TNF work in 1984. It has led to the development of three licensed drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune disorders -- Remicade, Enbrel and Humira. [Robert G. Roeder] will receive $50,000, and Feldmann and Sir Ravinder $25,000 each. The public service award does not have a monetary prize. Since the Laskers were first awarded in 1946, 66 winners have later received Nobel Prizes

[Christopher Reeve] was paralyzed from the shoulders down when he was thrown headlong from a horse in 1995. He was honored for transforming his personal tragedy into public service. He is now chairman of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation and a leading advocate for increasing financial support of medical research aimed at curing not only his own injury, but a wide variety of other conditions

Christopher Reeve, the actor whose struggle against paralysis has given new hope to patients with severe spinal injuries, has won the Lasker public-service award. Reeve was paralyzed from the shoulders down when he was thrown headlong from a horse in 1995. He is now chairman of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation and a leading advocate for increasing financial support of medical research aimed at curing not only his injury, but a wide variety of other conditions. The Lasker committee said it was citing Reeve, 50, 'for his perceptive, sustained and heroic advocacy for medical research in general and victims of disability in particular.'

Dr. Marc Feldmann and Sir Ravinder N. Maini of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London won the clinical-medical - research award for a discovery that led to development of powerful drugs that can soothe joint pain and restore mobility among people with rheumatoid arthritis

A pioneering gene researcher and the discoverers of a powerful therapy for autoimmune disorders are the winners of the 2003 Lasker awards for medical research. And [Christopher Reeve], the actor whose struggle against paralysis has given new hope to patients with severe spinal injuries, has won the Lasker public service award. Dr. Marc Feldmann and Sir Ravinder N. Maini of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London won the clinical medical research award for a discovery that led to development of powerful drugs that can soothe joint pain and restore mobility among people with rheumatoid arthritis. The therapy, known as anti-T.N.F., for tumor necrosis factor, has also benefited people with other autoimmune disorders, like the bowel ailment Crohn's disease and a form of arthritis caused by psoriasis. Dr. Feldmann, an Australian immunologist, and Sir Ravinder, who was born in India, overcame major scientific skepticism when they began their anti-T.N.F. work in 1984. It has led to the development of three licensed drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune disorders -- Remicade, Enbrel and Humira

A puzzling cluster of pneumonia cases among American troops in Iraq and other countries in the war region seems to be partly related to the fact that many had taken up smoking shortly before they became ill, Pentagon officials said yesterday. He said the military has investigated the cluster because of the particular severity of the pneumonia -- all patients needed assistance from mechanical ventilators to breathe. Most responded ''fairly dramatically'' within days after such therapy and antibiotics, said Col. Bob DeFraites, the Army's chief of preventive medicine. Tobacco smoke is a prime suspect because it is known to damage lungs and increase their susceptibility to pneumonia. Also, at least one published paper has reported a similar link between smoking and severe pneumonia

He said the military had investigated the cluster because of the particular severity of the pneumonia -- all patients needed assistance from mechanical ventilators to breathe. Most responded 'fairly dramatically' within days after such therapy and antibiotics, said Colonel Bob DeFraites, the Army's chief of preventive medicine. The investigators are leaning to a noninfectious cause and are focusing on one finding 'that has jumped out at us,' that nine of the 10 patients with high eosinophil counts reported that they had started smoking recently, DeFraites said. Tobacco smoke is a prime suspect because it is known to damage lungs and increase their susceptibility to pneumonia. A combination of stress, heat, dust and other factors may have acted in concert with smoking to cause illness, he said