Ice Pick
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"Three miles . . .
Two-point-five . . .
Two miles . . .
Missed approach point," intoned Lieutenant Tim Novak, our plane's navigator.
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He observed a high number of ALS cases around Lake Mascoma in Enfield, N.H., and other bodies of water containing cyanobacteria.
Highlights in this issue
Launching a research career in the biomedical sciences takes more than just the right degrees. At DMS, several new initiatives are helping junior researchers learn to soar scientifically.
Our national defense is in jeopardy, argues DMS faculty member Kendall Hoyt, due to the inability of the U.S. vaccine industry to develop agents against scourges like SARS or anthrax.
Over 40% of U.S. primary-care doctors believe their patients receive too much care and 28% say they themselves practice more aggressively than they'd like to, according to a new DMS study.
The causes of Lou Gehrig's disease are as murky as the algae-infested waters suspected of playing a role in the disorder. A DMS researcher believes cyanobacteria may hold secrets to the fatal disease.
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Inside the In SHAPE Program
The most disadvantaged group in the U.S. in terms of life expectancy is not, as most people might expect, a racial minority. It is people with serious mental illnesses. Due to a host of associated health problems Americans with a serious mental illness have a life expectancy 15 to 30 years less.
The Atlas goes global
In September 2011, health-care researchers from around the world gathered in London at a meeting of the Wennberg International Collaborative to talk about research on variations in the delivery of health care.
A superlative setting
Antarctica is a place of superlatives—it is the world's highest, driest, coldest, and windiest continent. Ice covers 99% of the continent's surface.
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