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...district money by contracting out lunchroom and maintenance services. With the help of Houston business executives, whose conservative politics had historically been at odds with the district leadership, Paige won voter approval for a $678 million bond issue in 1998--the largest of its kind in Texas--to repair 69 schools and build 10 new ones...
RECOVERING. RONALD REAGAN, 89, from surgery to repair a broken right hip sustained in a fall at his home; at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. Reagan, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, had a large metal pin and plate implanted in the hip, secured by a series of screws...
NERVE TRANSPLANT In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves will act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet...
...helps to know what physicians believe lies at the root of most heart attacks. The trouble begins decades earlier, when the inside of a coronary artery becomes damaged--usually as a result of chronic high blood pressure, high cholesterol or the deleterious effects of smoking. The body tries to repair the damage, and a kind of internal scab is formed. Years go by, and the scab develops into a fatty deposit, filled with cholesterol, proteins and bits of cellular detritus. Sometimes the plaque is quite stable, and nothing much happens. Other times, for reasons that are still unclear, it becomes...
Drugs are bound to play a major role in any new advances based on genetic or tissue engineering as well. For example, doctors hope one day to repair the muscle damage that occurs during heart attacks by transplanting precursor cells called stem cells into the affected areas. However, the stem-cell implants can take hold only if the levels of a number of different enzymes and molecules are boosted--a task that pharmaceuticals are particularly well suited to fill...