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That will likely be just one of many changes in the thinking behind heart-disease prevention. JUPITER's results shore up the contention that one heart attack is not the same as the next. Cardiologists think that cholesterol and inflammation conspire to cause heart attacks but that each person's genes and lifestyle influence how those factors interact. Excess cholesterol causes fatty deposits to build up within heart artery walls; those plaques trigger immune and inflammatory reactions in the body that tend to increase the instability and rupture of the plaques, which causes heart attacks. How aggressive the inflammatory response...
...Primary-care physicians now have to add to their battery of tests - which include colonoscopy, PSA and breast exams - something for the asymptomatic older person for the prevention of heart disease that now has greater benefit than anything we have ever had in the past," says Weaver...
...experience, knowing you can help people in the future,” Amato said. Epstein was able to bring “the bench to the bedside,” Hessler said, noting his strengths as both a physician and a scientist. Epstein is perhaps best remembered for his personal warmth and kindness. “He was an incredibly compassionate and generous human being,” Hessler said. “He really brought out the best intellectually. I learned from him about science, but he was also a very inspiring role model as a person as well...
Nelson Mandela was the last person to be similarly honored with such a ceremony outside of Commencement. The South African leader was honored in Sept...
...continued, "When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call supernaturalism. As a writer I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about. As a person I don't need it and as person I do. I would agree, that tension is irreconcilable. [But] it's just there. It's just...