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...represents a sad coda to Burri's remarkably colorful career. Born in 1915, Burri did not set out to be an artist. He earned a degree in medicine from the University of Perugia, and, at the outbreak of World War II, was shipped to North Africa as an army doctor. Captured by the British army, Burri was turned over to American forces and interned at a prison camp in Hereford, Texas. Depressed and dispirited, Burri abandoned medicine for art. Short of materials, he turned to the abundant supply of burlap in the camp and used it as a canvas. After...
...patients, the new technique could mean that they will no longer have to leave home for diagnosis and treatment. Nurses could visit patients' homes, and using e-mail or multimedia messaging, send pictures of ulcers back to hospital specialists. "It has the potential to replace the visit to the doctor's office," says Dr. Ralph Braun, who directed the Geneva study. And since the research was conducted, mobile-phone technology has improved even more. "Newer models provide much better image quality," says Braun, who hopes to carry out a larger telemedicine trial with real nurse visits...
In 1994, Kelli Lawless, 24, of O'Fallon, Mo., waited for test results she hoped would solve the mystery of her failing health. For years, she had been plagued by a string of illnesses including sinus infections, pneumonia and two bouts of shingles, but her doctor had never performed a test that would have been routine for someone else with those symptoms. "He said that people like me--a white, middle-class, non-drug-using, college-educated woman in Iowa-- didn't get HIV/AIDS." Alas, in Lawless's case, he was mistaken. Testing showed that she was positive...
...generation of drugs began helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and healthier lives, Kelli and Jim Hughes began to feel more hopeful about the future. During a visit to her doctor, Kelli tentatively broached the subject of having children and was stunned when she received a go-ahead. "We had adjusted to a marriage without kids," says Jim, who grew up with nine siblings and desperately wanted children. "When they said it was O.K., we were shocked because everything we'd heard up to that point was that we couldn't have children because they would be infected." Using home...
...mate whose emergency appendectomy on a shipmate--the first ever on a submarine--became one of the most famous lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze-covered tea strainer as an ether mask, he removed the appendix in 21/2...