Story Highlights. The average GPA at four-year colleges and universities has risen from 2.52 in the 1950s to 3.11 in 2006. Former Duke University professor found that at some colleges over 50% of the grades given are A's.
A. A. A. AIDS wasting syndrome occurs when you have AIDS and lose at least 10% of your body weight -- especially muscle. You may also have at least 30 days of diarrhea or extreme weakness and fever that's not related to an infection.
Please try again later. A third of cancer patients die from a wasting syndrome. With new hints, researchers are closing in on what causes it and how to slow it down in order to give cancer patients more time to fight. Half of all cancer patients suffer from a wasting syndrome called cachexia. Affected patients lose weight, including muscle, no matter how much they eat. The wasting is the immediate cause of about a third of all cancer deaths.