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Hospital executives are responding to the assault of specialists by building and aggressively marketing profitable "service lines," like cancer, heart and brain centers. They're snapping up $1.4 million computed tomography (CT) scanners, which produce palpably detailed, 3-D pictures of bones and organs, and $2.2 million "high field" MRI machines that can watch the brain at work. The inflationary dynamic spawned by this expansion of health-care capacity exposes flaws in the payment system that sustains U.S. health care. Those flaws partly explain why Americans spend $2 trillion, or 16% of their GDP, for medical care, an outlay that...
Already at an ebb in his career, Peake developed Parkinson's disease in 1956. Despite attempts to improve his health with electroconvulsive therapy - in which high-voltage electricity is passed through the brain - he died in 1968 at the age of 57. His wife Maeve Gilmore, almost destitute after he died, went to the Tate Gallery to sell her husband's body of work. She was offered ?1,500 for the complete collection. Disgusted, she stormed out. If there is any justice, Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art may well ensure that such snubs are not repeated...
DIED. Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, commentator, essayist and author whose celebrated novels, including Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, examined America's race and class divides and opened a window into the lives of upwardly mobile blacks; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell. Her mother believed memorization was key to education, and pushed her to commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never...
...focus on BPA is new. Its use is widespread--it's found in dental sealants and the epoxy linings on food cans as well as in baby bottles. Studies in animals over the past five years have found that the substance, which mimics the human hormone estrogen, alters brain structure and chemistry as well as the immune system and reproductive organs. Some of these effects show up at extremely low doses, in some cases 2,000 times below the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) safety guideline, according to Frederick vom Saal, a University of Missouri endocrinologist. Chemical companies say the findings...
...mantra seems quite simple to us: people matter. Ryan is the kind of person who makes certain that everyone he works with knows how valuable and appreciated their contributions are. Whether you find him in a dining hall late at night (on his second or third Brain Break run) or on his way to a breakfast meeting long before classes begin, he always stops to say hello and ask how your midterm went or what your plans are for the weekend. For Ryan, friendship and leadership are so inextricably bound that it is easy to see why he has become...