Faculty Bibliography

[...] a procedure does not involve a brain biopsy that doctors would need to diagnose dementia. [...] Reagan was flown to a military hospital near Tucson - not taken to San Diego, as his son writes - and the blood clot, a subdural hematoma, was removed weeks later at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

The doctors preserved the skull bone for later replanting. Since surgery, they have used short-acting drugs to put Ms. Giffords in a medical coma that they lift periodically to check on her neurological responses.

Not only did the drugs help relieve angina pain, they also lowered death rates. [...] beta blockers are sometimes used to treat migraine headaches and anxiety, among other conditions.

Plum's immensely influential research improved the diagnosis and treatment of patients who lose consciousness from head injuries, strokes, metabolic disorders and drug overdoses.

Dr. [James W. Black] started out working in academia, but in 1958 he went against the academic grain by moving to a drug company. 'One thing was clear at that time: Going into industry was a no-no,' he said in an interview in Molecular Interventions, a journal published by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in Bethesda, Maryland. 'If you were a good scientist, you didn't go into industry.' Jerry Adler, a harmonica virtuoso whose pure, open sound can be heard on the soundtracks to 'Shane,' 'High Noon,' 'Mary Poppins' and other films, but who labored in the shadow of his more famous harmonica-playing older brother, [Larry Adler], died on March 13 in Ellenton, Florida. He was 91 and lived in Sarasota. He was highly sought after as a soloist in films from the 1940s through the 1960s. His credits include the soundtracks for 'Shane,' 'High Noon,' 'The Alamo,' 'You Can't Take It With You,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'My Fair Lady.'

Since the Civil War, the White House medical staff has been drawn largely from the military. Staff members plan the president's annual physical, rescue guests choking on hors d'oeuvres at White House functions, help foreign leaders seek care in the United States or elsewhere, and plan emergency care should the president need it while traveling

Without the benefit of now-standard technologies like CT and MRI scans and ultrasound, the medical field had only a rudimentary understanding of ailments like brain swelling, degenerative brain disease, impaired consciousness and brain death, and doctors could treat few of them.

President Barack Obama 'is in excellent health' and likely to remain able to carry out his duties for the rest of his term, his doctor said after completing Mr. Obama's first routine medical checkup since he took office last year. Mr. Obama, 48, continues to struggle to stop his 30-year smoking habit and needs to modify his diet, said Dr. [Jeffrey Kuhlman], a navy captain who led the medical team that performed Mr. Obama's physical Sunday. As for Mr. Obama's smoking, Mr. [Robert Gibbs] said the president had tried to quit but had 'admitted lapses.' It is not known how frequently Mr. Obama smokes, or what the figure is for his total 'pack years,' a standard measure of a smoker's risk for diseases like lung cancer

Plum's influential research improved the diagnosis and treatment of patients who lose consciousness from head injury, stroke, metabolic disorder and drug overdose.

The authors point out that Turner Catledge, then a Washington correspondent for The New York Times and later its executive editor, did not report how awful Mr. Roosevelt looked during an interview at the White House in 1944, months before his nomination to an unprecedented fourth term. The speculation about a melanoma cannot be verified because there was no autopsy and no known biopsy, and most of Mr. Roosevelt's medical records disappeared shortly after his death from a safe in the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In their public accounts and the few surviving medical records, his doctors never suggested that they performed a biopsy to determine whether he had any form of cancer.