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The World’s Most Reviled Genius
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The Flu Fighter
10/2/2009 12:00:00 AMDr. Margaret Chan is a veteran in the -infectious-disease wars. As Hong Kong's director of health, she faced down an avian-flu outbreak in 1997 and SARS in 2003. Now as director-general of the World Health Organization, she is leading the global battle to survive—and better understand—the H1N1 pandemic, just as a second wave of infection is about to hit the Northern Hemisphere. She recently spoke with NEWSWEEK's Alexandra A. Seno in Hong Kong. Excerpts:
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The Next Blockbuster Drugs
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HEALTH FOR LIFE M.D.
Brains and Mysteries
11/8/2007 12:00:00 AMWhitehouse, N.J.: My dad died of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. What is the chance that I would be diagnosed with one or both of these diseases? Is there anything I can do in middle age to cut my risk?Dr. Martin A. Samuels: Both Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease may be rarely familial, but more often we believe that there is a genetic predisposition acted upon by as yet unknown factors, some of which a person may be able to control. At the moment, we have no scientific proof that you can do anything to reduce your risk of these illnesses, but it makes good sense to keep your blood pressure and cholesterol under good control. And minimize excessive drinking of alcohol, and smoking. Let me add that when I refer to "unknown factors," I mean an incalculable and unavoidable array of stimuli, such as innocent viral infections, which might give one person a common cold but another person, with the correct genetic predisposition of the immune system, an immune-mediated disease such as MS or lupus.
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