Faculty Bibliography

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.

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

Borrowing a term from news reporting, E.I.S. detectives like to call themselves 'shoe-leather epidemiologists;' they also like to wear ties and lapel pins displaying their logo -- a hole in the well-worn sole of a shoe over a map of the world. Since its creation in 1951, the service has become a bulwark in the nation's defense system against disease, often acting as the public's emergency room

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.

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.'

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

Known then as retrolental fibroplasia, it is now called retinopathy of prematurity, or R.O.P. The oxygen, he found, led to overgrowth of blood vessels in the eye, damaging the retina irreparably. After earning undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Patz served in the ambulance corps during World War II, often transporting patients from Camp Lee, Va., to Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington

[...] Dr. Childs helped shape the understanding of inherited diseases as scientists learned more about so-called inborn errors of metabolism, biochemistry, and molecular biology.

[...] Dr. Childs helped shape the understanding of inherited diseases as scientists learned more about so-called inborn errors of metabolism, biochemistry and molecular biology. If a mother's gene for the Factor VIII blood clotting agent is mutated, that could be harmful to a son, leading to hemophilia, because the gene is on the X that she has supplied to the boy (with the father having supplied the Y)

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