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Galanek said funds for the formal were still being worked out last night. She would not confirm rumors of manipulation by Hanson...
Scientists have a lock on agenefor obesity in mice and are probably around the corner from pinpointing a counterpart in humans -- a major finding that may confirm doctors' suspicions that many obese people aren't necessarily responsible for their condition, according to a report to be published Thursday in Nature, a scientific journal. The findings -- which raise the possibility that drugs could control weight problems -- were developed by researchers at Rockefeller University. They say they have isolated the first gene that clearly participates in the normal process of regulating weight, though genetics remains one of several factors involved.TIME medical writer...
When Ronald Reagan's physicians first suspected that the former President's memory lapses were caused by Alzheimer's disease, they had no easy way to confirm the diagnosis. To determine whether Reagan, now 83, had the degenerative brain disease that affects perhaps 4 million Americans, the doctors gave him a complex series of physical and psychological exams -- mainly to rule out other possible causes of his symptoms. A year passed before he was told that he was indeed in the early stages of Alzheimer...
...Michael and 14-month-old Alexander ended in Union County, South Carolina, the place where the tragedy began. Authorities accused Smith of murdering the children after police found her car with the boys inside at the bottom of a local lake. The arrest shocked the community and appeared to confirm some of the worst infanticidal suspicions of early doubters of Smith's tale...
Harvard administrators can redeem themselves. A set of procedures detailing what processes to follow in such cases must be established. The recently passed ordinance gives Harvard an opportunity to confirm its commitment to safety by conducting a thorough investigation into the current security system provided for students at Harvard...