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...inhibitors, now among the most widely prescribed drugs for hypertension, are the new kids on the block. They work by blocking an enzyme that constricts blood vessels. They are particularly beneficial when the patient is suffering from diabetic kidney disease or congestive heart failure...
...while calling for the workers in the hall to unite. He's offering Clintonism in populist garb, centrism in a union suit. He never talks about issues like income inequality or the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. He talks about a prescription-drug benefit, the patient's bill of rights, targeted tax cuts, a secure retirement--ideas that speak to voters who are prospering as well as voters who are not. And his brew also includes centrist ingredients like welfare reform, disciplined government, crime, free trade and values...
...just spotted a bunkmate from sleep-away camp. But once the supportive circle of six women Senators left the podium and the applause subsided, Hillary simply couldn't make music. To her the Staples Center was the world's largest day-care center, and she the patient teacher, mouthing bromides in the singsongy style that Al Gore rose above for his own address. Along about the third reference to helping children, the audience began to drift. By the time she was saying thank you (for what she didn't say), many had lost the will to live. If the film...
Scott's is the first hand transplant of its type in the U.S. and one of only eight worldwide. (Reattaching a patient's own severed hand is far more common.) So far, his transplant team, led by Dr. Warren Breidenbach, at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and Dr. Jon Jones, now at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., seems to have overcome the most formidable challenge of such a procedure--long-term limb rejection. While immune-suppressant drugs have improved the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants, the arm is composed of several different tissues...
While Ford's doctors are optimistic about their octogenarian patient, who has been an active golfer and public speaker, they haven't escaped criticism for their missed first diagnosis. But casting blame won't do anyone much good. What the former President's experience should teach us is the importance of recognizing stroke symptoms and getting help fast...