Joy Resmovits
By Joy Resmovits
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News Gunfire Silences a Jamaican Hip-Hop Artist and Convert ‘Kidnapped by God’
Update: An arrest has been made in the shooting death of Yoseph Robinson. On Yoseph Robinson’s website, a Brooklyn street scene fades into an image of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The man in the images leans idly against a Brooklyn lamp; at the Wall he prays, standing erect. In a video that appears between…
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News Tay-Sachs Research Receives Unprecedented NIH Grant
A rare genetic disease that disproportionately afflicts Ashkenazic Jews is receiving a large and unprecedented infusion of research funding from the federal government. The National Institutes of Health on August 20 awarded a four-year grant of $3.5 million to the Tay-Sachs Gene Therapy Consortium, a group that is researching therapies for the disease. “It’s the…
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Culture After Late-Onset Tay-Sachs Trial Is Pulled, Parents Pull Together
Perhaps it’s the urgency of Tay-Sachs that brought parents to action when a pharmaceutical company allowed a promising clinical trial to languish. Two years ago, drug company ExSar proposed a trial that would test the chemical pyrimethamine’s ability to restore a vital enzyme in Late Onset Tay-Sachs and Juvenile Tay-Sachs patients. ExSar had three medical…
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Culture Living With LOTS, S.F. Woman Won’t Let Disease Win
Conventional wisdom dictates that runners, like most athletes, improve with experience. A promising freshman cross-country runner might become the school track star by senior year. But that didn’t happen for Vera Pesotchinsky. As a high school student in California, Vera saw the opposite trend: She peaked as a freshman, then spiraled confusingly downward. “I began…
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Culture Daughter Inspires Dad’s Quest for Cure
Dakota Jean Bihn started dropping things at age 3. That’s how Ohio accountant Ken Bihn begins telling the story of his daughter, a tale that has led him down the unexpected path of starting his own foundation. Dakota spent years bouncing between puzzled doctors. “She was clumsy, then she stuttered a little bit,” Bihn said….
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