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...weeks before the lights come back on and months before New Orleans is mopped out, a year before the refugees resettle in whatever will come to function as home, even without anything precious from the days before the flood. But it may take even longer than that before the nature of this American tragedy is clear: whether the storm of '05 is remembered mainly as the worst natural disaster in our history or the worst response to a disaster in our history. Or both...
...Abortion is only one front in the privacy wars, but at Roberts' confirmation hearings, whether a privacy right exists will function mainly as code for whether an abortion right exists. Among liberals, a major defense of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, is that if it is overturned the destabilizing effect will be great, denying women a legal right they have had for 32 years. But to many conservatives the matter has never been settled as the Warren Court's original recognition of a constitutional right to privacy (in a 1965 case involving the use of contraception) provided...
Some of the older diagnostic standards are undergoing a technological makeover of their own. Echocardiogram machines are getting smaller and smaller, and their output is increasingly being digitized, which allows doctors to calculate more accurately the ability of the heart to function. And new radioactive markers are making nuclear perfusion scans shorter and more precise...
...perform lots of cardiac catheterizations but have pretty much given up that technique to heart specialists, in large part because they were simply outnumbered. As for who is best at reading cardiac CT scans, cardiologists argue that they have a better understanding of the heart's anatomy and function, while radiologists point out that the heart is not the only organ that shows up on the images and needs to be evaluated. Some hospitals have split the difference, decreeing that a cardiologist and a radiologist should analyze each cardiac scan...
...finding by the HMS researchers—who included Dudley Lamming, Oliver Medvedik, and Magda Latorre-Esteves, in addition to Sinclair—reveals that Sir2 does not serve this function alone. Rather, a group of related genes—the Sir2 family—plays a major role in regulating lifespan. Sinclair said that one of the genes in the family appears to control functions such as fat metabolism and cell survival, while another controls body temperature and the efficiency with which an organism uses energy, and yet others protect against diabetes...