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A gift for an ailing Haitian boy: 2 cows

Almane Luxama did not know it yesterday as he headed to Haiti with his 1-year-old son, Dumanel, but some kind Massachusetts residents are planning a homecoming gift for the pair: two cows. Luxama, a poor farmer, had sold his only two cows to seek ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  5 Nov 2008

The chance of two lifetimes

Dumanel Luxama began his life in rural Haiti doubly unlucky. He was born with a rare deformity, a hole in his skull that let his growing brain bulge outward into a lump between his eyes as big as half a tennis ball. And an even larger cyst, swelling ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2008

Psychiatric patient's flight from facility leads to a new life

Muddied and panting, Jonathan Delman pelted through the forest "like a banshee, like there was no tomorrow." Behind him was McLean Hospital in Belmont, where the staff wanted to hold him against his will. Another stay in a mental hospital, he felt, ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  2 Nov 2008

Marshmallow temptations, brain scans could yield vital lessons in self-control

It is a simple test, but has surprising power to predict a child's future. A 4-year-old is left sitting at a table with a marshmallow or other treat on it and given a challenge: Wait to eat it until a grown-up comes back into the room, and you'll get ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  22 Oct 2008

Subjects' DNA secrets to be revealed

The human ability to let it all hang out is about to reach a whole new level. Ten genome-era explorers assembled by a Harvard Medical School genetics professor are expected to announce today that they will post their medical records and the DNA ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  20 Oct 2008

Genetics sheds light on mental illnesses

For decades, scientists seeking genes involved in mental illness reaped mainly frustration. But in recent months, painstaking analysis of the DNA of thousands of patients has yielded important, and surprising, insights into the roots of schizophrenia, ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  14 Oct 2008

Breakthroughs seen in cancer spread and stem cells

On a visit to Bangalore, India, in 1998, Robert Weinberg, one of the leading cancer researchers in the United States, met a voraciously curious young doctoral student from a South Indian village so remote that he grew up without phones or television, ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, International Herald Tribune,  9 Sep 2008

Bid to ban trans fat statewide gets a boost

All of Massachusetts may soon become a trans fat-free zone. The state's public health commissioner responded enthusiastically yesterday to a lawmaker's request that his agency impose a statewide ban on the artery-clogging fat in all restaurant ...

From CAREY GOLDBERG, Boston Globe,  21 Aug 2008

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