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...discovery could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of both acute and chronic pain, said Assistant Professor of Radiology Lino R. Becerra, who also worked on the project...
...close to a magic bullet as we will come in modern medicine," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "If everyone in the U.S. were to walk briskly 30 minutes a day, we could cut the incidence of many chronic diseases...
Anyone who develops a chronic disease in mid-career dreads being written off--being thought of prematurely in the past tense. Three years ago, I was offered the editorship of the New Yorker. I told the owner I had Parkinson's and invited him to change his mind, but he generously said it didn't matter. A few hours later, though, he withdrew the offer with no explanation. I chose to believe him that the Parkinson's didn't matter. To withdraw the offer for that reason would be, among other things, probably illegal. But I also doubt that...
DIED. FRANCIS MOORE, 88, Harvard professor and surgeon who advanced the fields of organ transplantation and post-operative care by measuring the body's common components, such as water, sodium and potassium, and tracking them during surgery; of suicide after chronic heart failure; in Westwood, Mass. A team under Moore's direction carried out the first successful human-organ transplant--a kidney between identical twins--in 1954. TIME hailed him, nine years later, as "one of the half-dozen greatest surgeons...
...Wash Various Artists “My last album was The Chronic,” exclaimed Dr. Dre in the 1999 smash hit “Still D.R.E.,” seemingly ignoring his 1996 compilation Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath. Of course, his forgetfulness was excusable; aside from the single “Been There, Done That,” Dre’s lineup of inept guest artists and producers proved one of the most disappointing efforts of his career. Fortunately, The Wash is one compilation he won’t have to disavow anytime soon. Given that...