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...ovary size of healthy women in the U.S. against their age. But to Kelsey's eye, it had an identical trajectory to a mathematical model used to estimate the decline in the number of eggs in a woman's ovaries from birth to menopause. Last week Kelsey, with pediatric oncologist Hamish Wallace, published a paper in the journal Human Reproduction that made big news. "We now have the potential to be able to tell a woman how fast her biological clock is ticking," Wallace said. On average, women reach menopause at the age of 50, but variation by seven...
...minute [the Bam residents] heard we were there, we were mobbed,” said Annekathryn Goodman, a gynecologic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor...
...took Abrams five years, but he finally pushed his study through. A stubborn and irreverent oncologist who had watched hundreds of aids patients suffer brutal nausea, he won government approval in 1997 for the first clinical trial of marijuana in more than a decade. Marijuana proposals at the time required the approval of three agencies--the FDA, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse--and the DEA and NIDA had resisted. A DEA official worried in a letter about the political fallout if Abrams found positive results. "The government is saying there are no studies proving...
...body, were diagnosed in some 6% of breast-cancer patients. Today the ratio is closer to 20%, largely because of advances in detection techniques. Yet the treatment of choice is still surgery followed by radiation. "We may be far overtreating our patients," says Dr. Julie Gralow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "We've now got women being diagnosed with tumors that probably never would have been treated if we didn't have mammography. They probably would have lived long, natural, healthy lives never knowing they had breast cancer...
...hard to imagine that Darrow, the head of emergency services at Chicago Memorial Hospital, and Emily, a pediatric oncologist there, ever had the time or the extra emotional wherewithal to maintain a strong relationship. Nevertheless, he is devastated by his loss, or at least Costner trys to act devastated. He becomes a loose cannon on the job and is quickly asked to take time off by his friends and medical colleagues. He appears delusional to them, as he becomes deeply affected by frequent encounters with dragonflies—be it with a dragonfly paperweight with a life...