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Anyone who has seen a doctor recently knows the major culprits of heart disease - high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, too little exercise. For years, physicians have been warning their patients about these risk factors for heart attack and stroke. But with the explosion of research on the genetic drivers of disease, a group of experts at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston wondered how these tried and true markers of heart problems would stack up against the predictive power of the latest genomic science...
Bishop and her husband had been questioned by authorities investigating the delivery of a package containing two unexploded pipe bombs to Paul Rosenberg, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and doctor at Children’s Hospital Boston. Bishop’s concern that she would not receive a positive evaluation on her doctoral work from Rosenberg and previous violent behavior made her a suspect at the time, according to the Boston Globe...
Even if Murray is acquitted, the trial's impact on other doctors won't be diminished, Pinsky says. "Doctors are very sensitive to their professional status being questioned. They would rather go to prison than to be publicly humiliated like this, with their ability as a doctor being questioned...
Part of the problem is that many times, when a doctor is treating a famous individual, the traditional relationship is reversed and boundaries are blurred, with the celebrity dictating what drugs or care they want and using their allure, threat of banishment and lucrative pay as means to get their...
However, Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, doesn't think the trial will have much consequence for the questionable doctors who are enlisted by celebrities when they can't get aboveboard practitioners to pander to their needs. "Even with those tough charges, the combination of extraordinary wealth, lavish lifestyle and doctors who operate on the fringes of their profession almost guarantees a replay at some point down the road," he says. "Medicine hasn't figured out how to weed out the fringe operators, and celebrities haven't figured out that...