Word: factors
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...time of "crisis" for the nation: "The legal undermining of the sanctity of human life, from the preborn to the old and infirm, represents a rejection of America's two-century-old tenet that mankind is made in God's image and is a repudiation of morality as a factor in court decisions...
Hoopingarner said the fraternity's alcohol policy was not a factor in his decision to pledge...
...third major factor is the lack of medical education and training in end-of-life care. The eight-year, $20 million Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT), the largest, most rigorous study ever of the experiences of patients facing the end of life, confirmed our worst anxieties. Its main finding was that communication between health care professionals and terminally ill patients was horrendously insufficient. As a result, physicians often knew very little about their patients preferences for end-of-life care, and were reluctant to discuss the topic...
...better, a belief in principle, the conviction that comes with confidence in the correctness and value of what one is doing, and a strength of spirit that overcomes the inertia of long-established custom--these are ingredients without which the work cannot be accomplished. While genius is somes a factor, the tales in this issue tell of doggedness, common sense and the simple wish to help the sick or injured...
Black is also working on an entirely different experiment for treating tumors. Cooperating with molecular biologist Habib Fakhrai, he is trying to enlist the patient's own immune system to attack brain cancers. Tumor cells produce a substance called TGF-beta (transforming growth factor-beta) that both fuels their own growth and tricks the immune system into ignoring their presence. Using genetic engineering, Fakhrai has come up with a genetic "switch," called TGF-beta antisense. When inserted into a tumor cell's genetic machinery, the antisense turns off the cell's ability to produce TGF-beta. Injected into patients, these...