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...heart doctor the best way to avoid a heart attack, and he will probably tell you to lower your cholesterol and exercise more. What he's not likely to tell you is that despite cholesterol's well-earned reputation as the heart's primary nemesis, half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels. That's because though scientists have identified some 250 other risk factors, from obesity to gum disease, they have never found a better indicator of the health of one's cardiovascular system than the levels of good and bad cholesterol in the blood...
...People queued up at the public anatomy theaters opening all over Europe, and dissections became a spectacle no educated gentleman could miss. These autopsies were scientific, but the ornate theatrical setting blurred the line between performance and science. The anatomical information revealed in these dissections spread beyond surgeons and doctors to influence the culture as a whole. Many writers of the period were fascinated by anatomies, and as they pushed the boundaries of self-referential writing they regularly described their efforts in the language of the body. "I have cut up mine own Anatomy," wrote John Donne, "dissected myself...
Wollf entered Harvard intending to become a doctor. He worked for two months at the Medical School and had spent the year before working at the Dental School, where he met Cummings. He said Cummings talked about the need for wider sex education and hinted at the existence of an undergraduate homosexual group...
...CREATIVE Some families share duties by assigning a "sibling of the month." That sibling takes the lead for managing care, doctor's visits and medical emergencies during those weeks. Siblings might even rotate living in the parent's home on a week-to-week or month-to-month basis to provide live-in care...
...people will pay to watch a German doctor-artist perform Britain's first public autopsy in 170 years...