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...often, they pay an appalling price to feel?and look?cool. Among the 30 patients in the head-injury ward at Hanoi's Viet Duc Hospital, doctors say 70-80% are there due to motorcycle accidents. Dr. Nguyen Kim Lien, a steely eyed woman in her 40s who runs the ward, estimates that a third of her patients wouldn't be there if they had been wearing helmets. For her part, Dr. Lien says she sticks to a bicycle, always wears a helmet and insists that all her family members do, too. But old habits are hard to change, even...
Still, lead researcher Dr. Ronald Petersen was encouraged, seeing this as a first step in a process by which scientists "could start to nudge back the onset of the disease by years," possibly even postponing it altogether. Already, many doctors have begun prescribing Aricept for patients at high risk of developing Alzheimer's. If you believe you or a loved one may be a candidate, ask your doctor...
...quest for independence is like a childbirth gone terribly wrong. The seemingly endless struggle, the merciless pains of the pregnancy, the fear of becoming a burden, the striving to keep on with minimal complaint, the impatient waiting for the new soul to arrive-almost all are slipping away unrewarded. Doctors in charge disagree about how to best save the mother and the baby. They deal with this crisis with that provocative detachment of men dealing with death without being vulnerable to it. While the majority of doctors insist on the need for a caesarian section, there...
...want to change things? asks my still idealistic self. Don’t you want to give Americans the news that has global significance? Malaria, cholera, other diseases that kill millions in the developing world each year? A few weeks back, a brief in the medical memo showcased a doctor making exactly this argument, and fittingly enough, it was axed in favor of yet another story about obesity...
After I became a doctor, one of my more satisfying achievements occurred in the 1960s, when my colleagues and I performed the first successful coronary-artery bypass, at Methodist Hospital in Houston. Some 30 years earlier, as a medical student at Tulane University in New Orleans in 1932, I began work that helped launch the field of cardiovascular surgery. I devised a pump for blood transfusions, which paved the way for open-heart surgery--still two decades away...