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...often with drugs that are taken for the rest of the patient's life. "There was a mind shift that happened in the 1980s," says Dr. John Glaspy, professor of medicine at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. "We realized that there is a power in the chronic-disease model where you can focus on a high quality of living with a disease instead of necessarily curing it. If we can have people alive, productive and happy, that's now viewed as a very wonderful outcome...
...Breast cancer is the model for treating cancer as a chronic disease, largely because it's the focus of so much research and drug development. "We have a ton of drugs that work for breast cancer - eight or nine - more than for any other cancer," says Dr. Christy Russell, co-director of the Norris Breast Center at the University of Southern California. The approach for someone with metastatic disease like Elizabeth Edwards, says Russell, is to use a drug until it stops working - as it almost inevitably will - and then switch to something else, possibly buying years of relatively good...
...Once Piero had returned from his travels to Arezzo, the wealthy Bacci family commissioned what is widely considered his masterpiece in the city's Basilica of San Francesco. The Legend of the True Cross, a complex yet perfectly proportioned fresco cycle of 12 panels, uses contemporary models and references to tell the ancient legend of how the Emperor Constantine's mother discovered Christ's cross during a pilgimage to the Holy Land. The modest "skyline" of 15th century Arezzo, for example, served as his model for biblical Jerusalem...
...Indian Point is as safe as a facility can be, and a pretty good model, if not an excellent model, for not only other nuclear power plants but other industries that in many ways are just as sensitive [to security threats]," Giuliani said. The former mayor added that his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, led Entergy through 12 security drills and that Entergy had spent more than $24 million in security improvements in recent years...
...experts from Harvard schools highlighted the University’s help in preventing the spread of AIDS in Brazil at a conference about the disease in the Center for Government and International Studies yesterday. The conference, organized in part by a Harvard undergraduate, presented Brazil as a generally good model for countries affected by AIDS. During the early 1990s the World Bank projected that 1.2 million Brazilians would be infected with HIV by 2000. But in 2005 it was estimated that only 600,000 had been infected, according to Professor of Medicine John R. David. “Brazil might...