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First Responder Whatever successes Ho does or doesn't have ahead of him, he long ago earned his credentials in the AIDS field. As a physician at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the early 1980s, he began keeping a diary of patients who were rushed to the emergency room with a mysterious amalgam of symptoms such as pneumonia, cancer and, most important, a devastating drop in immune function. After a few months, he noticed a pattern: most of the patients were gay men. Intrigued, he became nearly obsessive about chronicling the growing wave of cases. Within two years...
...believed that Jordanian physician Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi would help it infiltrate Islamist extremist groups--even find Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's elusive No. 2. But this informant, it turned out, was also an assassin, whose Dec. 30 suicide bombing of an Afghanistan CIA base killed seven agency employees. Officials are still trying to figure out how they were duped...
...this research has affected you a lot on a personal level. How? I'm a physician who fights cancer. In spite of our best efforts, not everybody is going to be cured. My absolute understanding that there is an afterlife for all of us - and a wonderful afterlife - helps me face cancer, this terribly frightening and threatening disease, with more courage than I've ever faced it with before. I can be a better physician for my patients...
Doctors who see patients complaining of headaches should screen them for depression as well, says Dr. Robert Marlow, a family-medicine physician in Scottsdale, Ariz., who recently published a paper on the issue in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Of course, "just because somebody has migraines doesn't mean they are depressed," Marlow notes. But in either case, you're better off getting diagnosed and treated rather than just suffering through the pain...
...Jordanian officials for at least a year. Analysts say that in addition to straining ties between intelligence communities in Washington and Amman, the incident could hinder progress in hunting down terrorists, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's No. 2. Some officials speculate that al-Balawi, a Jordanian physician, may have been recruited to help snare al-Zawahiri, who is also a doctor...