Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps it was one of those lulls which allowed Agnessi to penetrate the Harvard defensive zone and release the punishing blow. Then again maybe it was just a matter of time before Harvard's inability to score after over 100 minutes of play caught...
...matter what other goals it may achieve, the medical profession has always maintained as its ultimate mission the relief of human suffering. Though the greatest of medical innovators have made their most important contributions for any combination of personal and professional reasons, the background against which their motivations play has never changed. It remains what it has been since earliest s: the constant mindfulness that individual people are enduring the effects of disease and that only through the intervention of others can their problems be addressed...
...reason for such urgency is that no matter how carefully a surgeon cuts out a malignant tumor, the few stray cancer cells that are inevitably left behind will begin to grow again. TGF-beta and dendritic cells, or any one of a dozen other treatments under investigation by Black and others, could lead to the true cure for brain cancer that is Black's long-term goal...
Recognizing that the Old Order Amish and Mennonites (who suffer from a similar genetic disorder called maple syrup urine disease) could not reach major medical centers if their children became ill--particularly since the condition often deteriorates in a matter of hours--Morton and his wife Caroline decided to build a clinic in Lancaster County. Lacking government, university or foundation support, they applied for a second mortgage on their home in St. Davids, Pa., to raise money for lab equipment. Their chief need was for a mass spectrometer that, together with a gas chromatograph and a computer workstation, would provide...
...BIRTH-WEIGHT BABIES Those with abnormalities suggestive of inner-brain white-matter injury have a much greater risk of suffering some childhood psychiatric disorders...