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...Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive genome-wide scan looking for 317,000 potential genetic differences between the women who remain healthy and those who have suffered from a serious illness like a heart attack, breast cancer, or diabetes. Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the NBHLI, said that eventually the genomic database will...
...American woman who realized she hadn’t “truly lived” until her plane landed in Edinburgh three years ago, setting off a psychosomatic reaction communicating through ESP that she had reached her destiny. Convincing? Not so sure. I still have yet to undergo such an encounter with larger powers...
...eight-year span involving more than 18,500 women, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that women who took six or more multivitamin tablets a week reduced their incidence of ovulatory infertility by 40 percent. “Since these findings are preliminary, it is important that they undergo peer review (currently underway) so that the medical and scientific communities have a chance to scrutinize the study more closely and decide about their relevance,” Jorge E. Chavarro, a research fellow in the Department of Nutrition and an author of the study, wrote in an e-mail...
...read Weisskopf's searing and sensitive account of losing his hand in Iraq. In coming to terms with his loss, he realized that he had actually won a prize: the rest of his life. But his story revealed that he won more than that. By summoning the courage to undergo painful introspection after his injury, Michael Weisskopf has reclaimed his soul and his spirit. I too suffered a loss, 15 years ago, when my young husband died of brain cancer. As a result of addressing sometimes unendurable pain and grief, I won the same prize. Maralyn Farber Bethesda, Maryland...
...wept whenI read Weisskopf's account of losing his hand in Iraq. In coming to terms with his loss, he realized that he had actually won a prize: the rest of his life. But his story revealed that he won more than that. By summoning the courage to undergo painful introspection after his injury, Michael Weisskopf has reclaimed his soul and his spirit. I too suffered a loss, 15 years ago, when my young husband died of brain cancer. By addressing sometimes unendurable pain and grief, I won the same prize...