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Because most illnesses aren’t caused by a single gene, research today often focuses on discovering the genes that, when aggregated in an individual, contribute to disease, according to Mason W. Freeman ’73, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Lipid Metabolism Unit...
“We know that LDL is causal to the buildup of fatty plaques in the heart arteries, but it now looks like simple blood measurements of HDL may not be causal,” said study author Sekar Kathiresan, an instructor in medicine at the Medical School and...
He added that emergency departments do not always get enough resources because they do not bring in much profit for the hospital.
Hospitals have also been shuttering emergency departments. The American Hospital Association reported that the number of hospitals operating 24-hour emergency departments decreased by 12 percent between 1994 and 2004.
Mention Dr. Judah Folkman's name to colleagues and patients and only the grandest descriptors come to their lips - words like "giant in his field," "visionary," "genius," and "ahead of his time." Credited with revolutionizing cancer treatment with the theory that preventing angiogenesis, or new blood-vessel growth, would starve...