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every second or third year were just as effective.
Another study, authored by Kim Eagle, interim
chief of the division of cardiology, found that acute
aortic dissection - a rare heart disease which occurs
with the separation of aortic walls - is responsible
for the deaths of a high percentage of patients
despite recent medical advances.
Researchers found the highest mortality
occurred soon after symptoms were present. This
finding shows there is an urgent need to diagnosis
the disease quickly and then provide care in a
timely manner.
Another study highlighted in the issue tracks the
evolution of a life support system known as extracor-
poreal membrane oxygenation.
Researchers, led by surgery Prof. Robert Bartlett,
studied the first 1,000 patients treated with ECMO
since 1980 when the University founded its Extra-
cororeal Life Support Program.
ECMO in effect works as a lung, oxygenating
the blood of the patient so that the patient's
organs can recover. It can be used on either ;hil-
dren or adults, but is more commonly used on
children.
Bartlett speculates the success of ECMO may
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a decline in its use because it has allowed
s to learn about the recovery of the heart
rgs - which had not been possible without
>lie Health Prof. Peter Jacobson, along with
y Scott Pomfret, have concluded that man-
mare organizations must be held legally
stable to protect patient rights.
examined the federal Employee Retirement
- Security Act, the law that regulates employ-
isored health care plans.
mending the current ERISA or creating new
I regulations, the patients will also have the
sue their managed care organization.
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nals, presented the idea for a com-
memoration of the University's
sesquicentennial to the editors of
JAMA.
From there, the University submit-
ted nearly 50 different scientific
papers to the Journal for publication.
Only six of the 50 made the cut and
are published in the issue.
"We have been working on this
(issue dedicated to the University)
for months, upwards of a year," said
Scot Roskelley, assistant director of
science news at JAMA. "Michigan
generates top quality research. They
fit our appropriate scientific proto-
col and passed peer reviews of other
researchers around the country ...
we turn down nine of 10 research
ideas to be published."
Omenn said not only does the
attention confirm the University's
high standards and status within the
country; it could also produce even
more medical students and respect.
"It may bring us students who are
deciding between Michigan and
other places. The issue may help
with philanthropy in that it gives to
the very best and makes every single
person in the whole health system ...
and the students of the University
feel good about themselves," Omenn
said.
The cover of the issue has a por-
trait of Victor Vaughan, who served
as the Dean of the Medical School
from 1891-1921. He is remembered
for introducing innovative scientific
approaches to medical research.
The edition includes scientific
articles from University researchers,
a historical essay by Markel, reviews
on books all authored or co-authored
by University faculty members, and
an editorial on the future of medicine
in the University by Omenn,
Lichter, University President Lee
Bollinger and Health Centers Execu-
tive Director Larry Warren.
Although the issue highlights the
University's past and present endeav-
ors, Lichter said with projects like
the Life Sciences Initiative on the
horizon there is much to look for-
ward to in the University's medical
future.
"The future of medicine in this
University is extraordinary ... and
we're looking ahead to our 200th
anniversary of this school," Lichter
said.
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It was conducted in 1995, two years
before the lawsuit opposing the use of
race as a factor in admissions was
brought against the University's Law
School and College of Literature, Sci-
ence and the Arts.
Jessica Curtin, a member of the
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action
By Any Means Necessary, said there is
a difference between the average white
person and those actively seeking to
end affirmative action practices.
"The run-of-the-mill white person
who opposes affirmative action have
a complex mixture of both prejudice
and ignorance," she said. "People are
confused by the misleading rhetoric
by affirmative action. The more edu-
cated a person is about affirmative
action, the more likely they are to
support it."
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,Teamster locals offer Bradley support
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - It was a sudden show of support, a standing ovation
followed by an impromptu endorsement from the floor packed with Teamsters rep-
resenting locals from South Carolina to Maine.
The backing was unofficial for Bill Bradley, who has walked picket
lines in his campaign for union support. The national Teamsters organiza-
tion remains neutral in the Democratic presidential race, and front-runner
Al Gore carries most Big Labor support, including an AFL-CIO endorse
ment.
But searching for a crack in Gore's wall of labor backing, Bradley basked in the
moment.
He had just addressed about 400 union leaders attending the 13-state Eastern
regional meeting of the Teamsters at a casino hotel here.
"I know that the AFL-CIO has endorsed Al Gore," Bradley told the dele-
gates. "But that doesn't decrease my commitment to working people in this
country.
"My position on labor law reform, my position on health care, my position on
the minimum wage, my position on all of these issues is not related to whether I
got an endorsement or not from the leadership of the AFL-CIO. It's related to my
commitment to what a just society should be and to the working people of th
country."
AcROSS THE NATioN
Suspected hackers
sought by agents
WASHINGTON - Federal
agents chasing the hackers who
brought down a string of high-pro-
file Websites are preparing to ques-
tion several suspects in the case,
sources familiar with the investiga-
tion said Monday.
One of those people, "Coolio," is
locted in the United States, the
sources said. That is also the name
used by a person who early Sunday
defaced a company Website for one of
the most trusted names in the security
business. A second is allegedly a
Canadian teen known online as "mafi-
aboy." And a third is a male who
allegedly "confessed" to a staff mem-
ber of the popular security site Attri-
tion.org.
iaw enforcement officials and inde-
penident cyber-sleuths have been able
to link the online aliases to real names
and addresses, and FBI agents were
expected to begin questioning them as
early as yesterday.
Meanwhile, representatives of some
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of the biggest high-tech businesses are
scheduled to gather at the White House
at 11 a.m. The companies have agreed
to jointly call for a voluntary, industry-
led coalition that will share informa-
tion on cyber-attacks and how to
respond to them - a step that security
experts hailed as critical to discourag-
ing future attacks.
Lobbyists: Religious
tenets curb violence
BALTIMORE - Hoping it has
found an antidote to school violence
and moral decay, an increasingly suc-
cessful evangelical Christian lobby is
campaigning to have the Ten Com-
mandments displayed in classrooms
and public buildings.
And despite some protests, a rising
number of state legislatures seem to be
buying their argument.
The Washington, D.C.-based Family
Research Council calls its effort to put
the Commandments on walls in
schools, courtrooms and other public
buildings "Hang Ten." Nine states are
considering legislation to allow the dis-
play.
Music
does a body geol.
IRA halts talks of
disarmament
standing cease-fire.
"Both the British government and
the leadership of the Ulster Union-
ist Party have rejected the proposi-
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LONDON - Northern Ireland tions put to the (disarmament
plunged deeper into political crisis commission) by our representative,"
yesterday when the Irish Republi- the statement read. "They obviously
can Army pulled out of disarma- have no desire to deal with the
ment talks in a reprisal for Britain's issue of arms except on their own
suspension of the power-sharing terms.
government in the province last
week. Court orders release
The IRA said in a statement
issued from Belfast that it had bro- of Pinochet's records
ken off all contact with the interna-
tional commission overseeing LONDON - London's High Court
disarmament and had withdrawn all ruled today that the British governme 4@
offers it had put on the table since has to disclose the medical records of
November, when the guerrillas Augusto Pinochet to the four European
appointed a representative to meet countries seeking to prosecute the for-
with the head of the commission, mer president of Chile.
Canadian Gen. John de Chastelain. The decision sets the stage for fur-
The group accused Britain and ther court proceedings, meaning that
pro-British unionists in Northern Pinochet probably won't be sent home
Ireland of seeking "a military vic- to Chile for a few more weeks, or even
tory" over republicans who support months. The 84-year-old ex-general is
a united Ireland. While vowing that under house arrest in a London suburb.
such a victory is impossible, it
didn't threaten to break its long- -Comnpiled from Daily wire reports
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