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...Harvard physician writing in today's New England Journal of Medicine urges doctors to carefully monitor patients using a drug proven safe and effective at preventing strokes...
Isaac will have advantages that his parents may not even have imagined. He will probably be enrolled in a nursery school where one of the most important people on the staff is a physician, Dr. Horatio Dean. The school's focus is summed up by a banner proclaiming that HEALTHY HABITS LAST A LIFETIME. Each day at noon, instead of recess, Dr. Dean gathers together his charges for a meditation session that the usually rambunctious youngsters particularly enjoy. "Pediatrics sure has changed since my grandmother's day," says the young doctor...
...Despite his repeated denials of using a litmus test to choose officials, all the President's top health appointees are pro-life advocates. Among the casualties of Bush's de facto policy is the White House physician, Burton Lee, whose pro-choice views killed his chances of becoming Surgeon General...
...there is a single leading reason why middle-age men dread going to the doctor, it is the prostate examination. Routinely recommended for those 50 and over, the procedure calls for a physician to insert a gloved finger into the rectum to probe the chestnut-size prostate gland, which is near the bladder and produces some of the fluids in semen. But however uncomfortable and embarrassing the exam may be, it could be a lifesaver. The rate of prostate cancer in the U.S. has been steadily rising over the past several years. It strikes 1 in 11 American males...
Mystified, Baylor University physician Donald Anderson and Harvard pathologist Timothy Springer decided to test the child's white cells to see how sticky they were. "There was absolutely no binding at all," says Anderson. A new disease had been discovered: leukocyte-adhesion deficiency. Unable to produce the CAMs that enable leukocytes to stick where they are needed, these rescue cells were sliding past Brooke's wounds like a convoy of ambulances with no brakes. "This child can't heal a paper cut," says Brooke's mother Bonnie. For now, her daughter's life remains a continuous battle against infection, though...