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...prominent female academic and potential contender for the spot, Nan Keohane, stepped down this summer as the first woman president of Duke...
...Chaoyang hospital in central Beijing is an unlikely place to seek cutting-edge treatment. Orderlies in the shabby five-story building pile surplus furniture in the crowded hallways and push patients around on jerry-rigged gurneys made with bicycle wheels. Yet Nan Davis has traveled halfway around the globe to undergo a new procedure available only here. Six hours ago, Dr. Huang Hongyun injected 1.5 million fetal cells into her damaged spinal cord. Davis, a teacher from Ohio, hasn't walked since 1978 after a car crash left her paralyzed from the bottom of her rib cage down. Shortly after...
...smells. They transport these signals with the help of olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) cells. Because axons extend from all nerve cells, scientists have long wondered what would happen if OEG cells were taken from the olfactory bulb and introduced somewhere else?say, in the spinal cord of someone like Nan Davis...
...Huang wants now is a high-profile patient to showcase his procedure. He has approached Christopher Reeve, but says the quadriplegic actor opted against having the operation. "I can't be sure, but maybe he could come off the ventilator after treatment," says Huang. A week after her surgery, Nan Davis is no longer sure that her sense of touch has improved, but her back and stomach muscles feel stronger. She hopes "in a decade this will become standard treatment." Until the results are more verifiable, though, it's unlikely the procedure will spread far beyond this one crowded hospital...
Saddam Hussein--Remember him? Thomas Keneally does. In The Tyrant's Novel (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 235 pages), Keneally has produced an Orwellian fable about an unnamed nation that is unmistakably Iraq, one ruled by a whimsical killer called Great Uncle. He likes Tommy Hilfiger cologne and fears germs so much that he obliges visitors, before they come near, to change into sterile surgeon's robes and submit to an anal probe. All the same, this is a clown with a cocked pistol in his belt, so sometimes the laughs come hard. When a pool tender at one of his many...