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...That injection made Johnson the first person ever to undergo gene therapy for an eye condition, although it may take months to determine if the procedure worked. A second patient received the same treatment shortly after Johnson, and 10 more will soon follow suit - names and dates all undisclosed - as part of a trial led by Robin Ali, a professor of human molecular genetics at University College London, and conducted at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London...
...Years in prison Maeso was sentenced to serve by justices of a Valencia regional court--seven years for each patient he infected and eight for each who died. He must also pay a fine of $1.36 million...
...Assault on Reason will be hailed and condemned as Gore's return to political combat. But at heart, it is a patient, meticulous examination of how the participatory democracy envisioned by our founders has gone awry-how the American marketplace of ideas has gradually devolved into a home-shopping network of 30-second ads and mall-tested phrases, a huckster's paradise that sells simulated participation to a public that has all but lost the ability to engage. Gore builds his argument from deep drafts of political and social history and trenchant bits of information theory, media criticism, computer science...
This all comes in the context of an otherwise thoughtful medical curriculum that includes social phenomena that affect patient care, like socio-economic, linguistic, and racial issues. The underlying principle is that we need to learn about issues that are important to our patients–issues that affect patient care. But with religion, the medical school misses its own principle...
Schools rightly want to preserve their secular orientation. But too often, that attempt becomes an avoidance of even discussing religion, which is absolutely central to death and disease for so many of us, caregivers and patients alike. I’ll never forget when one of my attendings told me that when sick patients ask her to pray with her, she just holds their hands, “because that’s what they really mean anyhow.” A more honest answer would be for the doctor to admit that she doesn’t believe...