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Neither of the standard therapies for congestive heart failure--drugs and heart transplant--has proved particularly effective. Medications such as ace inhibitors keep the body's blood pressure down, making it easier for a weakened heart to circulate blood, but they do not fix the organ. In late-stage heart failure, the only option is a heart transplant. But while as many as 50,000 people in the U.S. alone need a heart transplant, only 2,500 transplants are performed there each year. Heart transplants have proved quite effective, with mortality rates of only 20% after a year...
After she left a teaching job in public schools in 1975, Wells began giving free music classes to children, instructing thousands of youngsters. Financed by raffles and donations, the cultural center she opened in the city in 1996 offers piano and organ lessons for kids and adults. "This is not a black program. This is not a white program," insists Wells, who has played the piano since she was five. "It's for people...
...stiff? The controversial physician, known for his advocacy of doctor-assisted suicide, has just released a compact disc of original jazz tunes entitled "A Very Still Life." Listing for $18.95, the aptly titled CD contains 12 tracks in which Dr. Death can be heard jamming on the flute and organ with the background assistance of the Morpheus Quintet. "The thing I hope the world will say about me years from now is that I was a physician who helped relieve human suffering," Kevorkian writes in the CD's liner notes. "Music has often soothed me and I hope these works...
...Lower Common Room boasts an enormous organ and a framed document signed by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The Adams House Pool The ater is easily the best theater in any House and the Cronauer space, though dank and bug-infested, offers a space for some interesting artistic fare (it is where the Dancing Deviant recently did his thing). On top of these places, Adams provides an active printing press, squash courts recently converted into an art gallery and, of course, the intriguingly decorated tunnels walls. That, as Marty Feldstein would say, is infrastructure...
Jared Lamenzo '97, director of the Harvard Sunday Jazz Band, also performed with the Harvard-Radcliffe Organ Society in a Saturday afternoon Brahms anniversary recital at Adolphus Busch Hall...