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Another recent grad who snapped up an administrative post was Lisa Chertkov '85, a patient advocate at University Health Services. As a doctor-patient liason, she serves on several committees and also handles complaints, comments and suggestions from users of the health services...
Chertkov says that although she lacked specific patient advocacy experience, her Harvard background has filled in the gaps...
...procedure that has given Lewis a future somewhat resembles kidney dialysis. Patients undergoing LDL-pheresis sit or recline for three to four hours as their blood circulates through two specialized devices. The first separates blood cells from blood plasma; the second filters the plasma through a jar of porous beads coated with an antibody that traps LDL. The beauty of the procedure, says its developer, German Biochemist Wilhelm Stoffel, is that "the antibody picks out only LDL." Other important blood components, including a valuable form of cholesterol called HDL (high-density lipoprotein), are all returned to the patient. In fact...
Many questions about the new procedure remain. Is one weekly session better than two? How long should patients be treated? The severest genetic cases, like Yuko's, would probably require lifelong treatment, says Rogosin's Dr. Bruce Gordon, but with most patients "the goal is to give a course of therapy from six months to two years, produce a beneficial effect and then hopefully keep the patient stable with diet and drugs...
...major breakthroughs, but says that during his tenure the U.S. has developed a consistency in its handling of relations with the Soviets, eased tensions with European allies and seen more democratic governments take root in Central America. Progress, he believes, can be made only by a kind of patient chipping away at encrusted differences rather than by bold strokes. Shultz's own metaphor is of a gardener planting seeds, and though once thought likely to retire at the end of Reagan's first term, he now apparently intends to stay around to nurture those seeds into bloom. He told TIME...