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Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George M. Whitesides '60 suggested that disparity between labs' results may stem from the different ways they are trying to relate the vascular system's growth to tumor growth...
...makes in the top 1% in income, and I'm not sure we need that kind of protection," argues Fred Campbell, a San Antonio, Texas, internist. Even more troubling is the image of doctors jeopardizing their patients by going on strike. On those grounds, Albert Yellin, a Los Angeles vascular surgeon, opposed the unionization last month of 800 Los Angeles County physicians. "Using our patients as hostages to gain things within our own self-interest is anathema to our whole mission," he says...
...George L. King, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Joslin Diabetes Center, has devoted more than 10 years of research to studying the effects of protein kinase C (PKC), a vital enzyme that regulates cells in the vascular system, on vascular complications in diabetics...
...addition to the new squash and tennis facilities, athletes from all of Harvard's 41 varsity sports can now work out in the Murr Center's first floor, state-of-the-art weight room with all new nautilus and cardio vascular machines. This is a enormous step up from the cramped weightroom across the way at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center, where varsity athletes were forced to move their work outs to when the Carey Cage was torn down two years ago. There is even an office for Strength and Conditioning Coach Dom Sardo...
...that my total cholesterol is too high. It has jumped to 222 from the previous year's 195. Cholesterol, the fatty substance crucial to cell functioning, contributes to atherosclerosis, a narrowing of the arteries, which is a major cause of heart disease. My level is not alarmingly high, but vascular disease is rampant among males in my family, resulting in generations of heart attack and stroke...