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...patients can use in Mexico, and Pesqueira at the Ministry of Health says there has been a concerted effort by the Mexican government to enforce quality control in recent years. "There are a few providers that are absolutely up to U.S. standards in everything they do," says San Diego neurologist James Grisolia. "Then there are other people who vary in quality. The regulations are not as strict...
...accompanied by four other newcomers to the Carr center, including Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, a Sudanese anthropologist and visiting professor of African and gender studies at Brown University; Robert Choo ’90, a former worker at Save the Children Vietnam and Myanmar; Vjosa Dobruna, a Kosovar pediatric neurologist and human rights activist; and Max Glaser, a former senior policy maker at the humanitarian relief organization Doctors Without Borders...
...shed sharper light on the problem, Cooper and King obtained the original X rays and took them to a medical examiner, a radiologist and a neurologist. The experts quickly spotted more clues. Abnormalities in the thin bones above Tut's eye sockets may be the kind of fractures that can occur when the head strikes the ground during a backward fall and the brain snaps forward. What's more, the vertebrae in Tut's neck were fused--a sign of a musculoskeletal malformation called Klippel-Feil syndrome. People with Klippel-Feil cannot turn their heads without moving the entire torso...
...Would that foreknowledge be insufferable? Not according to José Luis Molinuevo, who this month delivered just that information to some 20 people. If they are not killed by accident or some other disease, these individuals are predetermined to get early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain...
When Nate was 2 and not talking, we took him to a big New York City hospital to get him evaluated. The neurologist gave us his diagnosis almost apologetically, in a very quiet voice. I remember just two words: "Maybe autistic...