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Some doctors are skeptical. Cary W. Akins ’66, a cardiac surgeon at Mass. General Hospital, believes that a great deal more research must be conducted before scientists can begin to discuss possible surgical applications of this technology...
...says Dr. David Sachs, a surgeon at Mass General and Harvard who led the study, is to prepare a patient's immune system well before the surgery?or, to be more exact, to deplete the immune system's T cells, which normally patrol the body looking for foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses and tissues from outside donors. Several days before the transplant surgery, Sachs' team used drugs that target and eliminate these cells to wipe the immune slate clean. Then the team transplanted the kidney along with donor bone-marrow cells. What happened next was surprising: the bone marrow rebuilt...
...those bastards doing?" said one, as the World Trade Center collapsed. "Oh ... Sorry, Mourad, I didn't see you standing there." Being lumped in with terrorists has become one of the great work-related hazards for Europe's Muslims. "It's not outright discrimination," says Kamal Halawa, a Palestinian surgeon, who has lived in Spain for 40 years. "It's more like mistrust. You notice it in the way your [work] superiors treat you. You have to be continually demonstrating, day after day, that you are the same as everyone else...
...pneumococcal disease; hepatitis A; hepatits B; tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis; meningococcal disease; and shingles. Less than 10% of respondents remembered that hepatitis vaccines were recommended, and less than 5% mentioned the new shingles vaccine. "We really need to get beyond the mentality that vaccines are for kids," U.S. Assistant Surgeon General Anne Schuchat told a news conference Wednesday. "Vaccines are for everybody...
...developed one of the first internal pacemakers to help keep damaged hearts beating. He graduated magna cum laude in 1957. After a two-year stint in the Navy, during which he helped invent implantable controlled release drug therapy, Folkman returned to Boston. He served 14 years as the surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital and then turned full-time to the research for which he is best known. Folkman was appointed a professor of pediatrics and also a professor of cell biology at the Medical School. His students recall his infectious curiosity. “I remember...