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WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed Thursday that she has developed Parkinson's disease, but she said she planned to stay on the job. Reno, who is right-handed, said the tremor is fully controlled by Sinemet, a pill she has been taking three times a day since the condition was diagnosed three weeks ago. Reno's physician, Dr. Jonathan H. Pincus, professor and chairman emeritus of the neurology department at Georgetown University Medical Center, said Reno has mild Parkinson's disease that is fully controlled with medication. The tremor in her left hand is her only symptom from Parkinson's, Pincus said in an interview

Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed that she had developed Parkinson's disease, but said she planned to stay on the job

WASHINGTON Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed yesterday that she has developed Parkinson's disease, but said she planned to stay on the job. Reno, who is right-handed, said the tremor is fully controlled by Sinemet, a pill she has been taking three times a day since the condition was diagnosed three weeks ago. Reno's physician, Dr. Jonathan H. Pincus, professor and chairman emeritus of the neurology department at Georgetown University Medical Center, said Reno has mild Parkinson's disease that is fully controlled with medication. The tremor in her left hand is Reno's only symptom from Parkinson's, Pincus said in an interview

Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed yesterday that she has developed Parkinson's disease, but she said she planned to stay on the job. Reno, who is right-handed, said the tremor was fully controlled by Sinemet, a pill she has been taking three times a day since the condition was diagnosed three weeks ago. Reno's physician, Dr. Jonathan H. Pincus, professor and chairman emeritus of the neurology department at Georgetown University Medical Center, said Reno had mild Parkinson's disease that is fully controlled with medication. The tremor in her left hand is Reno's only symptom from Parkinson's, Pincus said in an interview

The New York State Health Dept said on Nov 15, 1995 that 'systematic deficiencies' at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer center in Manhattan led a surgeon, Ehud Arbit, to operate on the wrong side of a patient's brain in May. The officials said in a scathing report that the hospital had missed a number of opportunities to prevent the error, and that its staff failed to follow the most basic medical procedures. They blamed poor communication between doctors, inadequate pre-operative examination, inaccessible medical records and other problems

The state Health Department said Wednesday that 'systemic deficiencies' at one of the nation's leading cancer centers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan, led a surgeon to operate on the wrong side of a patient's brain last May. In a scathing report, state health officials said the hospital had missed a number of opportunities to prevent the error, and its staff failed to follow the most basic medical procedures. Those included reviewing the patient's medical history and diagnostic reports before surgery. The report said the attending surgeon, Dr. Ehud Arbit, who was then the hospital's chief of neurosurgery, confused the identities and X-rays of two patients with Indian names. One was a woman, the other a man; and their tumors were on opposite sides of the brain

The operation on [Edward] Dowling, a 66-year-old piano tuner, involved a new procedure known as minimally invasive direct coronary bypass surgery. Instead of stopping the heart and having a heart-lung machine take over its duties, [Valavanur A.] Subramanian's team performed a delicate operation on the organ as it continued to beat. Subramanian's approach is one of several ways minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery is being done. Some versions are modeled after the video-assisted, fiber-optic techniques developed for gallbladder and other surgeries. Others have modified decades-old methods to sew arterial grafts onto beating hearts without using heart-lung machines. In a standard coronary bypass operation, surgeons make a foot-long incision in the chest, split the breast bone and stop the heart. As a heart-lung machine temporarily pumps oxygenated blood through the body, a surgeon takes veins from a leg and an artery from the chest, arm or abdomen, and sews it to a coronary artery. The graft restores adequate blood flow by bypassing a blockage caused by a build-up of fatty deposits

When Dr. Valavanur Subramanian ran a scalpel along a 66-year-old piano tuner's chest to make a 7.5-cm incision from near the nipple to the breastbone one day last month, the operating room at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan was eerily silent. Instead of stopping the heart and having a heart-lung machine take over its duties, Subramanian's team performed a delicate operation on the organ as it continued to beat

Australian scientists have discovered a rare strain of the AIDS virus with an unexpected chink in its genetic armor. Their subjects are a small cluster of people in Australia who are infected with the strain and share a remarkable property -- none have developed AIDS, despite having carried the virus for some 14 years. 'This is the first time it has been shown unequivocally that modification of the genomic structure of the AIDS virus can dramatically alter the disease process, perhaps weaken it completely,' said Dr. John Mills, who heads the Macfarlane Burnet Center for Medical Research in Fairfield, Victoria, Australia, where the findings were made. His team's report was in the journal Science on Friday. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., said the Australian findings underscored the principle that a weakened, or attenuated, virus could be the source of an AIDS vaccine. But he and other experts said much more research was needed to be sure that such an attenuated virus vaccine was both safe and effective

Australian scientists have discovered a rare strain of the AIDS virus with an unexpected chink in its genetic armor. Their subjects are a small cluster of people in Australia who are infected with the strain and share a remarkable property: None has developed AIDS despite having carried the virus for up to 14 years. 'This is the first time it has been shown unequivocally that modification of the genomic structure of the AIDS virus can dramatically alter the disease process, perhaps weaken it completely,' said Dr. John Mills, who heads the Macfarlane Burnet Center for Medical Research in Fairfield, Victoria, Australia, where the findings were made. His team's report appears today in the journal Science. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., said the Australian findings underscored the principle that a weakened, or attenuated, virus could be the source of an AIDS vaccine. But he and other experts said much more research was needed to be sure that such a vaccine was both safe and effective