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...simple prescription. Even if homocysteine is behind some cases of heart disease, it's unlikely to be behind them all, and there's no guarantee that managing the amino acid will decrease the risk of cardiac trouble. Regardless of circulating homocysteine levels, smoking and obesity will still ravage the cardiovascular system, and a poor diet will still choke the blood with fats. Cardiologist Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins University estimates the share of all cardiac cases attributable to homocysteine at fewer than...
...Swiss giant announced it will buy holding company Corange Inc. for $11 billion in a deal that will boost Roche's drug operations from tenth place to sixth in the worldwide medical diagnostics market. Roche will assume Corange's holdings in Germany's Boehringer Mannheim, a market leader in cardiovascular and cancer treatments. It will also gain an 84.2 percent stake in DePuy, a Warsaw, Indiana-based manufacturer of orthopedic products. The final price of the deal is subject to negotiation. If approved by regulatory authorities, however, the takeover is expected to bring a round of layoffs. Though Roche declined...
...basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body's different systems--cardiovascular, reproductive and so on--work together in a seemingly chaotic but balanced harmony. The flaws of the human miracle are the diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon's role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy. Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts...
...wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not a religious man in any formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, ?We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws.? The basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body?s different systems -- cardiovascular, reproductive and so on -- work together in a seemingly chaotic but balanced harmony. The flaws of the human miracle are the diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon?s role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous...
Smith was appointed chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a forerunner of BWH, in 1974. As head of the department, he oversaw 70 physicians and was responsible for the training of 300 fellows during his 22 years in the post...