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Scientists said they have identified the chemicals that produce underarm odor in a discovery that is expected to spur researchers in the $1.6 billion deodorant industry to find more effective and longer-lasting products

Increasing use of a controversial statistical method to evaluate medical therapies and surgical procedures, called meta-analysis, is beginning to affect profoundly the care of pregnant women and patients with cancer, heart disease and other common conditions

A report in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed a new AIDS therapy called photopheresis that has been tested on five patients with AIDS-related complex. The process involves subjecting some of the patient's blood to ultraviolet light and then returning it to the body

''The perspective of prevention must be woven through the fabric of medical education,'' Dr. [Robert G. Petersdorf] said. But in an era when much of medical practice hinges on high technology, ''courses in preventive medicine may be boring and are not what turns medical students on,'' he said. He added, ''The marginal role that prevention plays in medical education and medical practice is rooted deeply in the culture of American medicine, discouraging any temptation to believe that superficial efforts at reform will be adopted or sustained.'' ''There is plenty that needs to be done for sick people,'' said Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn, a medical geneticist who is dean of the school of public health and community medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. ''But you could make tremendous advancements on the prevention side without taking anything away from diagnosis and treatment.'' Dr. [R. Palmer Beasley] said that ''as medicine's understanding has deepened, the competition between various departments for time in the curriculum has intensified.''

According to a new federal study, perpetrators of family violence often have records of repeated violence, leading researchers to suggest that people at high risk could be identified

Scientists had previously found evidence of AIDS infection dating to 1959 in one blood sample collected in a research study in Zaire. But no one knows if the Zairian, who was not identified, ever developed AIDS. In 1985, the Manchester team ran into another frustration. Although a blood test for the AIDS virus had by then been developed, the sailor's blood samples had not been saved. As a result, the doctors could not verify the presumed diagnosis of AIDS. Dr. Gerald Corbitt, a virologist at University of Manchester, said that by testing the virus identified in the sailor's tissues and comparing it with the virus from present-day AIDS cases, his team hopes to determine what variation, if any, has occurred in the molecular structure of the AIDS virus in the past 30 years

[J. Smith] said he believed that warfarin was probably twice as effective as aspirin, the most common current therapy, in preventing new heart attacks in people who have already had one. Other researchers said the two drugs appeared roughly comparable. Whatever the case, the success of warfarin will now give an alternative to patients who are sensitive to aspirin and may eventually allow doctors to prescribe combinations of the two drugs to increase effectiveness or reduce side effects. While Smith said warfarin appeared to be about twice as effective as aspirin in preventing second heart attacks, Dr. Richard Peto of Oxford University in England and Dr. James H. Chesebro of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said the benefits of the two drugs appeared to be similar

At least three million women and children will die of AIDS in the 1990s, more than six times the number in the 1980s, the World Health Organization said in a published report