Summary
This is the first in an occasional series of readers' medical stories.
Joining studies was something my husband did for fun. But after two years with a persistent lung infection, I now pinned great hope on being accepted in a study at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda for summer or fall, 2004.See the full content of this document
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Trying to Unravel a Mystery
The study was "morphological." What could my body type have to do with lung infections?
I was eager to know.Since his retirement from DOD seven years ago, my husband, Bill Kerchner, has taken advantage of studies to test his aging brain and body, largely at hospitals and clinics in the Baltimore area. Usually these studies were advertised in newspapers, some offering compensation. He memorized nonsense syllables to test his aging brain, he worked out for months in a hospital gym, then had a hip muscle biopsied to test uptake of glucose.Let this joining of studies be Bill's pastime, I thought to mys...See the full content of this document
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