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Working with the European Aeronautics Defense & Space (EADS) - best known as the maker of the Airbus jet - French researchers have developed a pioneering new artificial heart. Dr. Alain Carpentier, the heart surgeon who led the development of the device, said that the first heart patients may receive the experimental organ in just three years...
...Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona told the press that Bush administration officials tried to suppress public health reports, including one on the dangers of secondhand smoke, for political reasons. Carmona was also required to mention Bush’s name three times in each page of his speeches, and was even told he couldn’t attend the Special Olympics because the organization was supported by the Kennedys. Needless to say, Carmona was not asked to serve a second term...
...Indeed, it was in this spirit that the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), a national network of local health volunteers, was born in 2002. Coordinated nationally by the Office of the Surgeon General, MRC units represent vital community-based volunteers who heed the call to service and are identified, screened, trained and prepared in advance. Their sponsoring organizations, which can include local health departments, emergency management agencies, and other organizations, champion recruitment in local communities...
...biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon, dissecting everything that was offered against him." This analysis seems wilfully obtuse. Ultimately, batting is about numbers. And in Tests, Bradman averaged a full 60 runs more per innings than Fingleton...
...intelligent president with such a clear idea of democracy that economics is not everything and people are important,” said Kenzo J. Asahi, a native of Chile and a second-year masters student in public administration at the Kennedy School, who attended the lotteried event. A former surgeon, pediatrician, and epidemiologist, Bachelet served as Chile’s minister of health and minister of defense before being elected president. While a medical school student, Bachelet served as a member of the Socialist Youth in Chile and was captured and tortured in 1975 during the rule of Chilean dictator...