Word: neurologist
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...sooner than one might have dared hope, predicts Harvard University neurologist Dr. Dennis Selkoe, Alzheimer's disease will shed the veneer of invincibility that today makes it such a terrifying affliction. Medical practitioners, he believes, will shortly have on hand not one but several drugs capable of slowing--and perhaps even halting--the progression of the disease. Best of all, a better understanding of genetic and environmental risk factors will lead to much earlier diagnosis, so that patients will receive treatment long before their brains start to fade...
...days before Christmas, despite his round-the-clock care, he fell. The doctors decided on hip-replacement surgery, which he survived in good form. Then, inexplicably, he went into a coma, which lasted for nearly a month, with him on a ventilator. My dad's neurologist clearly felt I should take him off life support and let him die in peace. For a week I couldn't decide. But the idea of pulling the plug was too much. I had had to do the same thing for my mom, who died of Lou Gehrig's disease, and I couldn...
...feature that all stem cells share is an urge to travel. Evan Snyder, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, has found that stem cells are attracted to injured tissues, perhaps because of biological cues released by dying or diseased cells. Indeed, one of Snyder's lab colleagues found that a batch of stem cells had migrated from one side of a rat's brain to the other to infiltrate a tumor...
...every good thriller does, this one starts with a thrill: a helicopter smashes into the face of the Statue of Liberty. That brings on an architectural restorer; her fiance, an N.Y.P.D. detective; and her former lover, a research neurologist who can repair brain damage and bad attitudes with a computer and molecular smart bombs. An ingenious bio-tech love triangle ensues, as does the hunt for a sadistic killer with an acetylene torch. Then it's back to the top of Lady Liberty for the climax, a breakneck update of the finale to Hitchcock's 1942 tingler, Saboteur...
...They rarely take Mar. vacations 5. It's ending in June 9. When doubled, a song of Bush's alma mater 10. Boys Town is near this city 12. German firm EM.TV is buying the Jim __ Co. 13. MGM Grand has offered to buy it 15. Neurologist's tool, for short 16. One of the Coens 18. __ Perce (early Westerners) 19. Part of many Quebec place names 20. Initials of '52 and '56 21. Mary Quant design 22. Georgia was one, once 23. Richards, who called Bush "Shrub" 24. Peter Ackroyd's The __ Papers 25. Item burned in protests...