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...priority research areas. Separately, some of the scientists will also discuss a forthcoming research project that intends to duplicate the Lufthansa study, but with more sophisticated procedures and equipment. "There have been a lot of changes in blood testing, and technology has moved on," says John Scurr, a consultant vascular surgeon at London's Middlesex Hospital, who will coordinate the research. In a previous study, results of which are soon to be published in the medical journal the Lancet, Scurr conducted research he says "showed that some people develop clots after flying" but didn't pinpoint the reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perils of Passage | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...people of all ages, especially during the dark winter months and around the holidays, older people must cope with the loss of loved ones, social isolation and the physical limitations that often come with age. Physical changes in the brain caused by illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular (i.e., stroke-related) insufficiency, alcohol and drug abuse, and some antihypertensive medications also predispose the elderly to depression. Studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester division, confirm that medical illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke and cancer, are major correlatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listening For The Blues | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Janina A. Longtine, a student and colleague of Cotran, said his specialties were experimental vascular biology and kidney pathology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Professor Dies at 67 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...Once they hoped to cure diseases by repairing defective genes. Now it seems a lot easier to determine what proteins the broken genes should be making and replace them instead. Dr. Jeffrey Isner at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston has achieved remarkable results with a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF2) in restoring circulation in the legs of diabetics and, more impressively, stimulating new vessel growth in patients with severe heart disease. Says former Eli Lilly chairman Randall Tobias: "The day will come when we regard all surgeries, except [treatment of] trauma, as failures of the pharmaceutical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Got Any Good Drugs? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Whitesides explained that Folkman's research uses a methodology of attacking "normal" tissues that support a cancer, such as vascular tissue, rather than targeting the cancer itself...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Folkman Finds Anti-Cancer Substance | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

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