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Should the lights be dimmed?

Article Abstract:

Premature babies may be hypersensitive to hospital lighting. Some studies show that the intense light can damage a baby's developing retina, even causing blindness. Other studies refute this theory, and the resulting controversy has doctors, scientists and parents at odds.

Health aspects, Research, Premature birth, Retrolental fibroplasia, Retinopathy of prematurity

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'What keeps me alive.' (AIDS survivors)

Article Abstract:

The stories of 16 people with AIDS since 1988 are chronicled. Only six are still living. The Centers for Disease Control estimated that half of the 16 would die within a year of 1988, but only three died by that time.

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'Love has helped keep me alive.' (long-term AIDS survivors)(Cover Story)

Article Abstract:

Several long-term AIDS survivors relate their experiences as to how they cope with the disease and what it has done to their lives and outlook on life.

Cover Story

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