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In their first comprehensive interviews on the topic, Bill Bradley and his three cardiologists said the former senator was in excellent physical condition and his bouts of irregular heartbeat were not a serious hazard to his health, or to his ability to serve as president, despite their recent increased frequency. Bradley and the doctors, who have treated him since 1998, confirmed that he suffers from a condition known as atrial fibrillation. It is the most common heart-rhythm disorder that doctors treat, affecting an estimated 2.2 million Americans in one form or another. Many of these people work full schedules, and some even run marathons

In their first comprehensive interviews on the topic, Bill Bradley and his three cardiologists said the former senator was in excellent physical condition and his bouts of irregular heartbeat were not a serious hazard to his health, or to his ability to serve as president, despite their recent increased frequency. Bradley and the doctors, who have treated him since 1998, confirmed that he suffers from a condition known as atrial fibrillation. It is the most common heart-rhythm disorder that doctors treat, affecting an estimated 2.2 million Americans in one form or another. Many of these people work full schedules, and some even run marathons. Dr. John Eisold, the attending physician to the Congress and the person who first diagnosed Bradley's irregular heartbeat in 1996, did not consent to an interview. But he gave Bradley his Senate medical records, and Bradley turned them over to [Robert H.] Heissenbuttel, who then discussed them

In their first comprehensive interviews on the topic, Bill Bradley and his three cardiologists said the former senator was in excellent physical condition and his bouts of irregular heartbeat were not a serious hazard to his health, or to his ability to serve as president, despite their recent increased frequency. Bradley and the doctors, who have treated him since 1998, confirmed that he suffers from a condition known as atrial fibrillation. It is the most common heart-rhythm disorder that doctors treat, affecting an estimated 2.2 million Americans in one form or another. Many of these people work full schedules, and some even run marathons. Dr. John F. Eisold, the attending physician to Congress and the person who first diagnosed Bradley's irregular heartbeat in 1996, did not consent to an interview. But he gave Bradley his own Senate medical records, and Bradley turned them over to [Robert H.] Heissenbuttel, who then discussed them

''I have not thought of that,'' Mr. [Bill Bradley] said. He added that ''the 25th Amendment sounds a reasonable way to go,'' but that this was ''a decision that I can make down the road a little bit.'' Mr. Bradley's irregular heartbeat is technically known as lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. ''Lone'' means the irregular heartbeat is not caused by an underlying heart condition. ''Paroxysm'' refers to the bursts of irregular beats that come on unpredictably for unknown reasons and disappear just as mysteriously. Over time, the paroxysms sometimes become permanent. Mr. Bradley has never had a heart attack. ''I just got my heartbeat way too high and passed out,'' Mr. Bradley said. ''The last thing I remember is I looked at my watch and it said 2:12. The next thing I remember was waking up on the floor'' and wondering, ''Why did this happen?''

Estrogen strongly protected against infection by the simian AIDS virus in experiments with female monkeys, offering hope that it might be used to protect against the human AIDS virus in women, researchers have reported here at a meeting on the disease. In the study, estrogen injected into a small group of female monkeys produced a thicker layer of cells in their vaginas. That acted as a protective barrier against infection when S.I.V., the simian AIDS virus, was squirted into the vagina to test the effectiveness of the therapy. ''The results were striking,'' said the head of the research team, Dr. Preston Marx of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. Dr. Marx and public health officials cautioned that much more research was needed to prove that a topical estrogen cream applied to the vagina could protect women against H.I.V. ''We can't assume estrogen would have the same effect in women'' or that topical application would be as effective as injected estrogen, Dr. Marx said in an interview today

SAN FRANCISCO - Estrogen strongly protected against infection by the simian AIDS virus in experiments with female monkeys, offering hope that it might be used to protect against the human AIDS virus in women, researchers reported here at a meeting on the disease. In the study, estrogen injected into a small group of female monkeys produced a thicker layer of cells in their vaginas. That acted as a protective barrier against infection when SIV, the simian AIDS virus, was squirted into the vagina to test the effectiveness of the therapy. 'The results were striking,' said research team head Dr. Preston Marx of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City

SAN FRANCISCO -- Using a new statistical method and one of the world's most powerful computers, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory said Tuesday that they had traced the origin of the AIDS epidemic to around 1930, nearly 30 years before the earliest known infection in humans. The human immunodeficiency virus associated with AIDS could have originated from 1910 to 1950, but 1930 seems the most probable date based on calculations of the HIV family tree and the rate at which the virus mutated over time, Dr. Bette Korber, the head of the research team, told the Seventh Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. The approach also has been used to determine when different species diverged from a common ancestor. Similar studies of human mitochondrial DNA have also identified a common female ancestor of modern humans, called 'Eve,' who migrated out of Africa sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. According to the Los Angeles Times, some researchers called Korber's species-leaping HIV a viral Eve

Using a new statistical method and one of the world's most powerful computers, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory said yesterday that they had traced the origin of the AIDS epidemic to around 1930, nearly 30 years before the earliest known infection in humans. The virus could have originated from 1910 to 1950, but 1930 seems the most probable date based on calculations of the AIDS virus' family tree and the rate at which the virus mutated over time, Dr. Bette Korber, the head of the research team, told the seventh Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections here. The new findings also challenge a theory advanced by Edward Hooper, a British journalist, in his book 'The River,' that the AIDS epidemic was inadvertently brought on when the chimpanzee virus got into an experimental polio vaccine tested in the Belgian Congo in the late 1950s and prepared at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia or laboratories in Belgium and the Belgian Congo

Using a new statistical method and one of the world's most powerful computers, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory said yesterday that they had traced the origin of the AIDS epidemic to around 1930, nearly 30 years before the earliest known infection in humans. The virus could have originated from 1910 to 1950, but 1930 seems the most probable date based on calculations of the AIDS virus' family tree and the rate at which the virus mutated over time, Dr. Bette Korber, the head of the research team, told the Seventh Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections here

Dr. John C. Lungren, who was President Richard M. Nixon's longtime personal physician, died Feb. 28 in Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center in California, where he guided Nixon's care during a near-fatal illness in 1974. Dr. Lungren was thrust into the national spotlight in 1974 when, shortly after Nixon resigned the presidency, the ex-president nearly died from complications of phlebitis, an inflammation of veins in his leg. Appearing at news conferences to give updates on Nixon's condition, Dr. Lungren was the man in the middle in a dispute over Nixon's ability to testify at the Watergate cover-up trial of his former aides, including H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell, the former attorney general