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...book, is Chen's delicate, mosaiced account of trying to piece together the story of his grandfather's life - a tale of several marriages, migration and diaspora. In Contact Tracing, another piece that ratchets up the tension, Fitzgerald is dying of SARS, having contracted it while evacuating a patient from Shenzhen. In the respiratory isolation room next to his is Chen, also infected because he treated Fitzgerald in the initial stages. The ending rewrites any kind of expectation that we may have held in our minds, given that these two men were once rivals in love, and gives a depthless...
...faith and confidence. Here's a ringside view of the other side as it deals with that leap, the side we never get to see. We may not be comfortable with the fact, but from many doctors' perspectives the most obvious issues are exhaustion and overwork. Emergency-room patients are dryly referred to as "volumes" because of "the way they fill our fixed space" and because of "the volume of noise that we actually hear ... the crying of the child, the belligerence of drunkenness, the thin whine of a failed suicide." And there is a jaded professionalism...
...Harvard researchers have already created stem cells for ten genetic disorders using a new technique that isolates human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The technique allows scientists to genetically manipulate a patient's cells—typically skin cells or blood cells—and reprogram them into a pluripotent state; like embryonic stem cells, these iPS cells are then capable of morphing into any type of body tissue...
...Studying many diseases, especially degenerative diseases, often entails isolating cells that are not readily accessible, such as brain cells. But by deriving patient-specific iPS cells with the new technology, Hochedlinger said, researchers will be able to study the development of the disease in a lab dish...
There is no problem with statistical studies. They have been our trusty bloodhounds, tracking down new medical knowledge for decades. But "evidence-based research" is a mongrel, kept by business interests feigning patient advocacy, rarely, if ever, fed by the hand that helps when you're in pain...