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...There's a difference between a scientist and a clinician," said Professor of Pediatrics David G. Nathan. "A clinician doing commercial research cannot be a significant stockholder in a small company because a clinician is using his patient as his investigative subject...
Later this year Aprex, a company based in Fremont, Calif., will begin marketing a high-tech medicine bottle designed to help doctors make sure that patients obey orders. Called MEMS (for medication event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient takes off the cap to remove a pill, the chip records the day and time. At the patient's next checkup, the doctor can ask for the bottle back. Then the physician inserts the cap into a special electronic machine that analyzes the data contained in the chip and lets...
Buck up, Mrs. Campbell, it could be worse. There are 1,500 financial newsletters being published at the moment, and many of them are on display at the money show: the Astute Investor, the Busy Investor, the Patient Investor, the Contrary Investor, the Cheap Investor and so on. Most of them are solo operations, and one editor describes them unabashedly as the "alternative press" of the era. The wished-for kinship is not with some Age of Aquarius tabloid, of course, but with pamphleteers like Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton. The newsletter gurus see themselves as disabusers of Wall Street...
Following the success of last year's It's Sondheim Tonight, the the Performing Artists' AIDS Coalition (PAAC) presents Now, Later, Soon: Sondheim this weekend in the Dunster House Dining Hall. This year the profits from the show will benefit the Deaconess Hospital AIDS patient care. The performances in this weekend's show should be fantastic, so don't miss this great chance to hear good music and to provide necessary care for AIDS victims...
...explains his views against abortion and against withholding food and medical care from congenitally deformed newborns simply: "If you had led my life, you would understand." As a pediatric surgeon for 33 years, Koop saved many ^ babies no bigger than his hand. In the course of treating 100,000 patients, Koop saw many so-called difficult cases become happy and productive children. One of these was Paul Sweeney, born in 1965 with twisted intestines, facial deformities and a cleft palate. Koop operated on him 37 times. For the final operation by another surgeon in 1983, Koop returned to Philadelphia...