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Illness has been a near constant companion to Teigen. He had diabetes diagnosed at the age of 18 months, after inexplicably lapsing into a coma. Over the years since, he's endured a ruptured appendix; breathing problems; gangrenous feet, which led to the amputation of his left foot in 1998; and seizures too numerous to count. Still, he's been a model patient, giving himself daily insulin shots since he was 10, watching his diet and constantly monitoring his blood sugar. But the severity of his disease continued to make him prone to seizures and life-threatening infections. He never...
...focused on the monetary incentives HMOs offer to member physicians who find ways to avoid costly procedures. In 1992, Herdrich was forced to wait eight days for an ultrasound after doctors found a mass in her abdomen; according to her HMO, Herdrich's condition was not an emergency. Her appendix ruptured and necessitated emergency surgery, as well as several rounds of antibiotics. Herdrich sued her doctor in state court for monetary damages, and collected $35,000; she then sued her HMO under a federal law that regulates how employers distribute health benefits, charging that the organization's financial incentives encouraged...
That may yet turn out to be the case with the neurons found by the Princeton lab. The mechanism Gould and her colleagues uncovered in macaque monkeys could be nothing more than a useless evolutionary leftover, a kind of neurological appendix. But if, as many suspect, the new neurons turn out to be actively involved with inscribing memories, the old paradigm is in for at least a minor tune-up--and maybe a complete overhaul...
...James E. Foster, a professor of economics at Vanderbilt University who sees Sen as his mentor and has recently collaborated with him on an appendix to Sen's 1973 work On Economic Inequality, says he and Sen "often argued into the wee hours about points in the book." Foster says, "He is very enthusiastic about his work. I wondered how we could...
...infirmary, after I had my appendix out," Montgomery remembers. "He started reciting dirty limericks to make me laugh. He caused me considerable pain...