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...They have nine more subs of the Kursk type. Rear-Admiral Yuri Senatski, once the Soviet Navy's chief rescue specialist says it's criminal to let them sail if they don't know what happened to the Kursk...
...offered my services as a consultant, but was turned down. I asked Kuroyedov to bring in (rescue specialist) Senatski. Kuroyedov was not even aware of his existence. But they did not want us there...
Sidransky, a cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is particularly interested in what these fluids reveal about a patient's risk of developing cancer. The best-known of today's cancer-screening tests, the PSA for prostate cancer, is at most 70% accurate in picking up tumors. Sidransky is pioneering a new generation of tests that can detect cancer more accurately and at a much earlier stage in the progress of the disease...
...account for nearly 80% of all health-care costs--often winding up in the emergency room or a hospital bed when they fail to follow their complicated medication regimen. If you are one of them, don't be surprised when your employer or health insurer introduces you to a specialist in the burgeoning field of disease management. The basic idea is relatively simple: led by a company called American Healthways, these newfangled Florence Nightingales, among them Lifemasters and Matria, help monitor the most at-risk patients...
Three other Boston area researchers were honored, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital cardiologist Paul Ridker, MIT biomedical engineer Robert Langer, and MIT cell death specialist H. Robert Horvitz...