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...original organ. In the technique, known as autografting, doctors can now remove a group of skin cells one centimeter square from behind a patient's ear, or from a patient's stomach, and within three weeks reproduce a sheet of the cells of whatever size is necessary to treat the patient...
Clinical use of cultured skin cells began in 1982, when Gallico and colleague Nicholas E. O'Connor, instructor in surgery at the Medical School and a surgeon at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, first used the technique to treat a massively burned patient at the Shriners Burn Institute in Boston...
Economic Reform: First, and most important, the IMF should seek to negotiate a formal macroeconomic programme with every ex-Soviet republic prepared to make the radical reforms needed. In effect, it should treat the republics as member countries, their programmes being subject to approval by the IMF executive board and to standard IMF monitoring and conditionality...
...urging of his second wife Janie, who was hoping to save their marriage, he began to see an Atlanta psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Pittman, in 1985. Pittman did two important things for Turner. The first was to put him on the drug lithium, which is generally used to treat manic-depression as well as a milder tendency toward mood swings known as a cyclothymic personality. Turner's colleagues and J.J. Ebaugh, the woman for whom he left Janie, suddenly saw an enormous change in his behavior. "Before, it was pretty scary to be around the guy sometimes because you never knew...
...greetings? Not when they're as enterprising and altogether buoyant as this collection of Christmas songs by the great Irish traditional band, who augment their fiddles, harpsichord and Uilleann Pipes with vocal accompaniment by such % diverse characters as Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones and Marianne Faithfull. A real Christmas treat...