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Reflections by a Member of the Species. The late German neurologist Hoimar von Ditfurth examines man's arrogance and the resulting disregard for and mistreatment of nature. Claassen; 39.80 deutsche marks...
...political operative who specializes in bareknuckle campaigns, Lee Atwater is facing his roughest contest yet. The Republican National Committee chairman was hospitalized last week in Montefiore Medical Center in New York City for treatment of a brain tumor known as an upper-grade astrocytoma. Chief neurologist Dr. Paul Kornblith described it as "so aggressive, we had to go after it with hammer and tongs." Dr. William Shapiro of the Brain Tumor Cooperative Group, a nationwide research organization of neurosurgeons, estimates that Atwater, 39, has only a 10% chance of surviving more than five years...
...which was to involve 1,244 patients over four years, found that the drugs could cut that risk so dramatically, by 80%, that research was halted after just two years so that the control group could also be treated. "We were shocked," admits principal investigator Dr. David Sherman, a neurologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio...
...sense they trust me," says Jonathan Licht, a San Diego neurologist. "You tell them, 'You're O.K.' They say, 'No, I'm not O.K. I think I have a brain tumor.' Then they keep asking, 'How do you really know...
...with fetal brain tissue, a technique used for the first time by physicians in Mexico City last January. Reaction to the moratorium ranged from outrage to cautious endorsement. "A complete ban really blocks the prospects of investigating what could be a promising medical procedure," says Dr. Robert Burke, a neurologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. A better approach, he thinks, would be to allow research in a few supervised institutions to continue while the debate on the ethical issues goes...