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...Harvard faculty members, a moral and political philosopher and a physician who studies poverty, were recently honored for their creativity with MacArthur Foundation "genius" awards...
Once again with a physician the next morning, Cisneros can only think of the surgery to come. Doctors must reshape John Paul's heart in time to keep up with his growth. Cisneros dreads explaining to him what lies ahead. "I couldn't bear his questions," he says. "Nothing in my life has prepared me for this. Nothing could rival the sense of total panic that comes over me when I think of this surgery...
...ABORTION DRUG HAS BEEN A source of controversy ever since its invention was announced in 1982 by Baulieu, a French physician who worked as a researcher at Roussel Uclaf. The concept was rather simple: RU 486, an antiprogestin, could break a fertilized egg's bond to the uterine wall and thus induce a miscarriage. An injection two days later of prostaglandin, a hormone-like substance, would force uterine contractions and speed the ejection of the embryo. It took six more years and tests on more than 17,000 women before the French government announced that RU 486 would be made...
Another member of the review group, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy Dr. David Blumenthal '70, draws from his experiences as Senate aide, physician and academic...
...from out of town and says, 'If you don't do everything you can to save her, I'm going to sue your socks off.' " Dr. John Ely, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine says there has never been a successful suit against a physician who gave treatment in accordance with family wishes and against the patient's wishes. "That's because the patients aren't there," he says. "They are either incompetent or they have already died...