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...will be holding an official ground-breaking ceremony today for a new $350 million center dedicated to the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center—named after the donors who contributed $25 million—will completely revamp the way cardiovascular patients are treated, according to Kenneth L. Baughman, director of the advanced heart disease section at Brigham and Women’s. “This will be the first time that all cardiovascular services will be represented in one building,” said Baughman, who is also a professor...
...reasons that aren't entirely clear, the current H5N1 flu, unlike common flu, strikes deep within a patient's lungs, making it harder to spread to someone else and unusually lethal. Dr. Nguyen Hong Ha of Hanoi's Bach Mai Hospital has probably treated more cases than anyone else. Two-thirds of the deaths from bird flu since 2003 have occurred in Vietnam. Ha has watched the virus ravage the lungs of healthy young patients in a matter of days. He says the key to treatment is applying just the right amount of breathing assistance. Too much, and an H5N1...
...That, if you are patient, is a more effective way of promoting democracy...
...grant will fund Platt and Mandl’s project to centralize large amounts of patient information in a computer database over the next three years. Mandl said the project aims to identify outbreaks of disease across populations and provide personally controlled electronic health records that will help doctors tailor health information to individual patients’ needs...
...speech, Maathai emphasized the importance of remaining “committed, patient, [and] persistent” in the process of enacting change...