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...HEARTBURN A new blood test--coupled with an electrocardiogram--helps doctors quickly assess whether a patient with chest pains is really having a heart attack. The test measures troponin, a protein released by damaged heart muscle...
...When you play these guys they are big and strong and they play that grinding style so you have to be patient," said Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni. "We've got to be able to grind with them and I thought for the most part...
...keeping the free market from changing it too quickly. And it's being waged on behalf not of the 41 million without insurance but of the 70 million who have enrolled in health-maintenance organizations. Which is why the President has a better chance of winning this time. The patient "bill of rights" Clinton announced two weeks ago is supported by the American Medical Association, which opposed him last time; 91 Republicans back a bill that resembles Clinton's. What hasn't changed is that hard-liners in both parties think the issue can carry them to success...
Instead of meeting in a private office, doctor met patient within a specially designed "clinic" sculpture in the Strauss Gallery of the Fogg Museum. This action, called Medicine as Art/Art as Medicine, is the work of artist and doctor Eric Avery in conjunction with the Multi-Disciplinary AIDS Program at Cambridge City Hospital's Zinberg Clinic...
...chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...