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Studies may also provide clues about patterns of growth and differentiation in skin cells. A 1989 study by Carolyn C. Compton, associate professor of pathology at the Medical School and a pathologist at MGH, found that the skin of patients treated with cultured skin grafts up to five years ago had developed lower layer skin, or dermis, rather than developing scar tissue...
...vanguard is Kevorkian, a retired Michigan pathologist who appeared on every television talk show and news program in the country last year in the 24 hours after he helped Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins commit suicide. He hooked her up to a homemade contraption that allowed her to push a button and send lethal potassium chloride into her veins. A Michigan judge chose not to prosecute Kevorkian for murder, since the state has no laws against assisted suicide, but forbade him to use the machine again. By last week, Dr. Death had found a way around that injunction...
Defenders of the right to die point to the need for careful safeguards around the process: Kevorkian ignored them all. There were no second opinions, no consent forms, no examinations to make sure that Kevorkian's "patients" were of sound mind as they made their decision. As a pathologist more accustomed to dealing with people after they have died, Kevorkian was in no position to confirm the diagnosis of any of the women he helped kill themselves. And his defiant pursuit of publicity suggests a man more obsessed with the justice of his cause than with the interests...
Jack Kevorkian -- a.k.a. Dr. Death -- may be back in business. Kevorkian, 62, a retired Michigan pathologist, gained national notoriety last year when he used his home-built suicide machine to help Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins kill herself. Last week, two days after Oakland County Circuit Judge Alice Gilbert issued a court injunction barring Kevorkian from using the suicide machine, he announced that he had counseled a dentist with cancer who was (and likely still is) contemplating using a similar machine of his own. Said Kevorkian: "I'm just testing the limits of the injunction...
...hope this paper will stimulate others into looking into this," says Noel Weidner, a surgical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a co-author of the New England Journal paper. Weidner's group is the only one at Harvard--and one of only a few in the world--currently studying angiogenesis, the sudden and dangerous transformation of benign tumors into malignant beasts...