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...chronic illnesses. These users won't have access to the full suite of tools unless their health insurer offers the service. But they will be able to use several tools on the site, including a medical-procedure fee estimator. Users can enter a question like "How much does a liver biopsy cost in Glendale, Calif.?" and be armed with the answer so that when they meet with their doctor or talk to their insurer, they are in the know. Other tools are a physician's directory that includes doctors' experience and background, and a decoder for those cryptic codes...
...movie camera is an ageist. It does not care for mature flesh. It ruthlessly exposes the ordinary battle scars of middle-aged actors: the liver spots, the chest freckles, the once taut skin that now hangs like crepe. No wonder American film worships youth. Kids are not only its target audience; they are also its most photogenic subculture...
DIED. DOUG HENNING, 52, tie-dyed, Emmy-winning magician who in the '70s used Broadway rock musicals to revive famous illusions and later performed Houdini's water-torture escape on live TV; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles...
Jesse's death, for example, may have occurred because his immune system reacted violently not to the gene the scientists infused but to the virus that carried it into the cells of his liver. While deactivated, the virus--a form of the adenovirus that causes the common cold--still retained some properties capable of triggering an immune response. Indeed, what has alarmed officials at the National Institutes of Health is how common such reactions to adenovirus appear to be--and how seldom researchers have reported them to the NIH. Out of 93 gene-therapy trials using adenovirus, it was recently...
Instead, she said she is concentrating on her goal to "get liver programs in Massachusettes to work together and get the cooperative spirit going in Boston...