1.   And while the FDA decides whether scientists can try experimental therapies, participants are supposed to receive consent forms detailing all the potential risks.

2.   It was the first time gene therapy has been tried for a chronic, disabling disease instead of a life-threatening condition like cancer.

3.   Miss Williams tried therapy, but says she gave up when two successive psychiatrists sat gaga before a movie star.

4.   Most disabled children who have tried the therapy cannot wait, either.

5.   More work, including reducing the toxicity, is needed before the therapy can be tried on people, Jain said..

6.   Most have tried conventional therapies without relief.

7.   Patients want answers and, as the explosion of alternative medicine suggests, are increasingly willing to try unproven therapies.

8.   Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center last week became the first to try gene therapy against rheumatoid arthritis, the crippling, incurable disease of the joints.

9.   Sznol encourages patients who have exhausted traditional therapy to consider trying such therapies.

10.   The next hurdle is for the therapy to be tried in monkeys infected with the monkey version of HIV, known as simian immunodeficiency virus.