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...know to go to work, restoring the enzyme that the babies lacked and causing affected nerve cells to regrow myelin insulation and healthy ones to keep what they had. "The cells go everywhere, but they seem to be more attracted to areas where there's injury," says neurodevelopmental pediatrician Maria Escolar, the study's lead author...
...Crosse, Wis., by members of the Wisconsin Physicians for Social Responsibility. Those killed by the Bomb are annually commemorated this way in Japan, where floating paper lanterns are a symbol of dead souls. Similar lights bobbed along dozens of other U.S. waterways last week. Said Cameron Gundersen, a pediatrician in La Crosse: "The purpose of this commemoration is not to assign guilt or linger among the images of death but to remind ourselves of what we are capable of doing. We are capable of destroying the world's civilization. More important, we are capable of preventing that...
...brighter note, casual contact with AIDS victims, even over long periods of time, seems relatively safe. Newark Pediatrician James Oleske studied the foster families of nine newborns infected with AIDS and found that none of the foster mothers or siblings showed any signs of infection. Other research presented in Atlanta offered an intriguing clue to the mystery of how AIDS began. Dr. Myron Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health believes that the virus may have originated in a species known as the African green monkey and spread to humans only in recent decades. Essex has found that about...
While no one has done a controlled study on which foods are best for test takers, nutrition experts offer some commonsense advice. "For starters, I'd suggest that the child get up early enough so that he or she can have a balanced breakfast," says pediatrician W. Allan Walker, author of the new book Eat, Play, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids (McGraw-Hill; 272 pages). "Letting them sleep 20 minutes more and then stuffing something in their hand on the way out is probably not in the child's best interest...
...obstacle to growth than debt. "Life doesn't come with one problem neatly separated from the rest. Specialization is helpful, but you've got to see the web," he says. Sachs labels this comprehensive approach "clinical economics." It's an idea he gleaned from his wife Sonia Ehrlich, a pediatrician...