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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

[...] his advanced age and Mr. Christie's election had prompted an effort by Democrats to pass legislation that would have prevented the governor from appointing a Republican to the Senate -- whether by specifically requiring him to choose a Democrat or by keeping the seat vacant until a special election could be held

'Never in the history of infectious diseases has one person developed so much definitive information about the causes of so much human disease in so short a period of time,' Dr. Dorland Davis, another leading scientist, wrote of Dr. Chanock in 1967

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

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 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 Roosevelt's medical records disappeared shortly after his death from a safe in the United States Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md

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

The finding upsets a widely held scientific belief that chimpanzees, the closest relatives to people, can get the simian AIDS virus but without harm.

'Walt Stamm was a giant in the field of infectious diseases in general and made many seminal clinical research contributions over decades that have transformed the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections and pelvic inflammatory disease,' said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a federal agency that paid for many of Dr. Stamm's studies

Fever is a hallmark of influenza, often rising abruptly to 104 degrees at the onset of illness. Because many infectious-disease experts consider fever the most important sign of the disease, the presence of fever is a critical part of screening patients

Scientific reports taught him that many such patients developed tiny bleeding ulcers in the stomach and small bowel. Since at least 1906, doctors had reported seeing curved bacteria in the stomach of patients who died with ulcers but less often in people without them