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...high, and their HDL, or "good" cholesterol, is a tad low. Or maybe they have diabetes, which commonly leads to cardiovascular disease, but don't yet show the effects. "I'm not recommending putting [statins] in the drinking water," says Dr. Antonio Gotto, a cardiologist and dean of Weill-Cornell School of Medicine in New York City. "But some 6 million to 7 million more people could benefit from their...
RECOVERING. HENRY KISSINGER, 77, Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford administrations, political consultant, writer; from a heart attack; in New York City. Kissinger was hospitalized at the New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center. "He's doing well and is expected to be here for a few days," said a hospital spokesman...
...cardiologist, Dr. Robert Ascheim, put me in touch with Dr. Todd Rosengart, then leader of a team at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City that performs both laser and gene therapy. Rosengart enrolled me among 10 heart patients who would be his second round of, er, guinea pigs for the gene-therapy procedure...
...after nearly four months off for family time and recreation, Rubin has re-emerged for another high-wattage star turn. Smiling alongside Sanford Weill and John Reed, the co-chairmen of Citigroup, the 61-year-old financier confirmed that he would help them run the nation's largest financial conglomerate (1998 assets: $669 billion). Rubin's timing, as usual, is perfect. Just as the former Goldman Sachs investment banker climbs back into the spotlight, Congress is preparing to vote on a historic bill that plays legislative catch-up with Citi's 1998 merger with Travelers, the insurance outfit that also...
...experiment at Cornell's Weill Medical College, though, may hint at a real baldness cure. The key is a gene known as SHH. In embryos SHH controls brain development, but in mature animals--including humans--it governs natural on-off cycles of hair growth. And sure enough, when scientists inserted SHH into mouse hair follicles (using a common cold virus as their splicing tool), the dozing follicles woke up and performed...