Ray D. Strand
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 Since McCully's positions at Harvard Medical School and massachusetts General Hospital went hand in hand, he lost both jobs in January of 1979. A former classmate from Harvard who was then the director of the arteriosclerosis center at MIT labeled McCully's ideas "errant nonsense'' and a "hoax being perpetrated on the public."3 Soon the director of public affairs at massachusetts General also asked Dr. McCully not to associate his homocysteine theories with the hospital or with Harvard.4 McCully was shut down for good.
Dr. Kilmer McCully was certainly ahead of his time. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 The most likely explanation is that high Colonial officials carried it with them when they were assigned to their administrative posts in places like Virginia and massachusetts. At any rate, by the end of the 17th century, Judge Sewall could have witnessed massachusetts meeting Mexico at the table of one of those officers of the King.
Chocolate never made any real inroads in the coffee-loving Near East: Dt. Stubbes's "amorous and martial Turk" spurned it. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 In the 1790s, mint was being grown in massachusetts, and by 1812 peppermint was cultivated commercially for oil in Ashfield, massachusetts.
Where Is Mint Grown?
Mint is mainly grown in China, India, the Mediterranean, the Philippines, and Egypt. In the United States, peppermint is primarily grown for essential oil production. Mint is also commercially produced in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Why Should I Eat Mint?
Mint contains phenolic compounds that have strong antioxidant activity. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 THE DIABETES CURE; TURNING OVER PARADIGMS
At massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Denise Faustman, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the massachusetts General Hospital Immunobiology Laboratory, may well be on the verge of developing just such a cure for type 1 diabetes. Humor has helped Faustman along what has proven to be a rocky road over the past several years as she developed a revolutionary approach to targeting and destroying errant immune cells in laboratory mice. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Zusman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Director, Division of Hypertension and Vascular Medicine massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts
DISCLAIMER: The Body Signs Panel of Medical Experts list their affiliations for informational purposes only. The listed affiliations do not imply endorsement of this book by those medical institutions.
YOUR HAIR
The Long and the Short of It
Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there, hair! Shoulder length or longer... hair! |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| Henry Hall, a war veteran, planted the first commercial cranberry beds in Dennis, massachusetts, in 1816. Today, cranberries account for nearly 40,000 acres across the northern United States and Canada, and over 300 million pounds of the berries were sold in 2004 to become fresh, frozen, juiced, dried, jellied, sauced, and even "pilled" products.
Where Are Cranberries Grown?
They are mainly grown commercially in Wisconsin, massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and also in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Quebec. |
David Steinman
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 Joe Thompson of MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) said of an exhibition in North Adams, massachusetts, "Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom," that it was a half-art, half-science show. The thirteen artists in the exhibition "are acutely aware of the diminishing space between human and animal existence, and the extraordinary opportunity—and mutual threat—this shrinking space provides. |
Charles Barber
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 I've seen people who have done hard work in cognitive therapy, but they just can't sustain it when depression returns," says Jerrold Rosenbaum of massachusetts General Hospital.39
The other problem is that CBT has not entered the mainstream culture, nor may it ever. Psychoanalysis, while devoid of much research base, was a lot of fun. It was the stuff of dreams, stories, conflicts, sex, aggression, unconscious desires, Freudian slips. It even offered a couch to lie down on! CBT, perhaps to its detriment as an art if not a science, is not narrative- or interpretation-based. |
Stacy Malkan
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 She was finally going to get a close-up look at the industry she'd been tracking for a year in her job as associate executive director of the massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition.
When no one was looking, Susan dropped a copy of USA Today here and there — on the table near the entrance, on the bench in the ladies' room — opened to the page with the photo of the little girl smearing on lipstick. In one bathroom, she met a woman who was so thrilled with the name of Susan's pretend company, Joyful, that she wanted to use it as an example during a marketing session she was giving later that day. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 In the spring of 2006, the Wall Street Journal noted that many states had implemented rules requiring health insurers to cover the adult children of members still living at home. massachusetts, meanwhile, planned to introduce statewide health insurance funded by a mandatory fee on employers and individuals.
But in the end, such measures won't bridge the gap. They will merely shift a portion of the burden to a different spot, like the air in a squeezed balloon. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 As a doctor, I didn't come across the disorder until I was teaching at massachusetts Mental Health Center in the early 1980s. My residents presented a twenty-two-year-old patient who had been in and out of the hospital for bouts of violent behavior. He mentioned that he had been on Ritalin as a hyperactive teenager but had long since been taken off the medicine. It was believed that kids simply grew out of their hyperactivity after adolescence and that it was dangerous to keep them on stimulants into adulthood, for fear they'd become addicted. |
| When a research psychiatrist at massachusetts Mental Health Center named Joseph Schildkraut found in 1965 that a breakdown product of norepinephrine, called methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG), was reduced in depressed patients, we got excited about the idea that there was something to measure. If we could quantify the imbalance, we should be able to diagnose and attack the disease at the fundamental level of biology. His pioneering work led to the monoamine hypothesis, which holds that depression is caused by a deficit of these three neurotransmitters. |
Stacy Malkan
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| I asked my doctor — a brilliantly talented surgeon who has removed the thyroids of thousands of young women in the massachusetts area — why I developed a lump on my thyroid (the size of a lemon, it turned out) and why so many other young women are getting them too. Could mine have had anything to do with the fact that I grew up a mile from the largest polluting trash-burning facility in the state? "Hmmm," he replied, giving me a funny look. "Don't know. Nobody has ever asked me that before. We don't know why thyroid lumps happen, they just do." It was the same story with the infertility. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| In reality, notes John Sterman, a professor at massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, "The total inventory of gas in the system remained nearly constant. But the actions of nervous drivers moved the gas from below-ground tanks at the corner gas stations to above-ground rolling storage"—vehicle fuel tanks, in other words. The amount in question: two-and-a-half days' supply. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The same month that Auer sent his polite rebuff, Robert Donkers was traveling across the United States addressing business associations in California, Texas, and massachusetts to answer concerns among executives and product designers about what the new initiatives coming from that "other jurisdiction" in Europe would mean for their businesses.
U.S. lobbying amounted to a historic intrusion into European affairs. Donkers invited me to consider the reverse scenario: European officials descending on Washington to lobby against a bill being considered by the U.S. Congress. |
| Already New York, Maine, massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Illinois, and California have passed or have laws pending that are similar to RoHS, though far more limited in their scope. The prospect, said Goss, of a patchwork of different state standards was enough to unnerve major players in the industry. "We would rather have California adopt the entire RoHS directive tied to enforcement in the EU than to have the different states doing each of their own versions. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| I was a third-year psychiatric resident at massachusetts Mental Health Center and was also seeing patients at outlying social services offices. A woman had been dragged in by her husband because she was depressed and all but refused to leave the house. She had been to the emergency room on more than one occasion for what felt like a heart attack, and she described in vivid detail how she had been certain she was dying. Each time, the doctor reported that her heart was fine, and she started to wonder if she was crazy.
Panic doesn't cause heart failure, but it sure feels that way. |
Mark Schapiro
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| California, massachusetts, and New York have begun implementing elements of REACH into their state regulations; other states, such as Maine and Washington, have cited Europe's precedent in their efforts to ban particular chemicals.
There is, however, a troubling side to this transformative process. By dismantling the barriers of national prerogative, globalization created an imperial power of the market. The EU offers an example of the power that can be wielded in the realm of the environment. But the market can cut both or in multiple ways. It is inherently undemocratic. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Undercover, Part II
As the lobby drama played out in California one month before Schwarzenegger signed the bill, Susan Roll from the massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition was dusting off her Joyful business cards and heading back to New York City for Health and Beauty America 2005. In the year since her last undercover visit to this major industry conference, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics had celebrated some key victories — top manufacturers had removed one of the worst ingredients from nail polish and the California legislature had passed a precedent-setting law. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| It focused on a novel drug treatment, for aggression, that affected both the body and the brain, which I stumbled on as a resident working in the massachusetts state hospital system. My experience working with the most complicated psychiatric patients set me on a path of investigation into the ways in which treating the body can transform the mind. It's been an enthralling journey, and though it continues, it's time to deliver that message to the public. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Soon the director of public affairs at massachusetts General also asked Dr. McCully not to associate his homocysteine theories with the hospital or with Harvard.4 McCully was shut down for good.
Dr. Kilmer McCully was certainly ahead of his time. But why the hostility toward a man who was simply trying to find the underlying cause of the number-one killer in today's world? What was the motive for such pessimism and verbal attacks? Could the heavily funded research on cholesterol at the time have been the reason? |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| How exactly did it come about that "Massachusetts met Mexico"? What was the roundabout route that took cacao from its point of origin in Mesoamerica across the Atlantic to Spain; then throughout Europe as far as the British Isles; and then back again across the ocean to Britain's American colonies? Who took it, and when, and how? This is the tale that we shall tell in this chapter, and the reader will see that it is one filled with certainties as well as uncertainties, with well-established facts as well as with conjecture (not always unfounded). |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Canyon Ranch health resort in Lenox, massachusetts. "I think, in balance, that these foods can be part of a healthy diet," Dr. Geyer maintains.
The glycemic index offers other misleading numbers, too. For example, some fruits—which contain more natural sugars—rank higher on the GI than particular fatty, sugary, processed foods like ice cream. But, let's face it, nutritive, high-fiber fruits are clearly healthier by a landslide than these heavily refined sweets.
Other experts believe that another, more recently developed tool, the glycemic load (GL), which was pioneered by Dr. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Joel Finkelstein, an endocrinologist at massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "In that setting, there was no overall effect on fracture risk, which wasn't terribly surprising because calcium and vitamin D are relatively weak therapies for osteoporosis.
"The message is it's a fairly mild to moderate effect," Finkelstein says. "I recommend that women should take calcium and vitamin D, but shouldn't rely on it as adequate protection for osteoporosis. |
| California had the highest ranking, followed by massachusetts, Connecticut and the District of Columbia—all of which received an overall grade of B. Arkansas, Idaho and Utah received the lowest ranking—a D.
LIABILITY AND COSTS ARE FACTORS
Dr. Frederick C. Blum, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians and also a professor of emergency medicine, pediatrics and internal medicine at West Virginia University School of Medicine, says that one of the main obstacles to providing quality emergency care is medical liability. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| The major part of the writing took place at my farm in the Berkshire Hills of massachusetts and in Rome. During my Rome stay, I was kindly assisted in many ways by my cousin Count Ernesto Vitetti, and by the library staff of the British School in that city.
I am deeply grateful for the forbearance and understanding of the staff at Thames & Hudson for seeing me—and the book— through a difficult period. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 In the massachusetts Women's Health Study, the largest and most comprehensive study of middle-aged women, the median age for menopause was 51.3 years.1 The range is generally from age 40 to 58 years of age, although some women reach menopause prematurely in their thirties and a few as late as in their sixties. Despite our aging population and greater life expectancy, the age of menopause has not changed in the last few centuries. Three important factors influence the age of menopause: current smoking, familial factors, and genetic factors involving the estrogen receptors. |
Ray D. Strand
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| This was based in large part on the Framingham studies, which followed a large population of patients who lived in Framingham, massachusetts. Scientists noted in these studies that as the cholesterol levels increased, so did the frequency of heart attacks. Following this research, cholesterol levels greater than 200 were considered abnormal and a cholesterol level greater than 240 placed the patient at high risk of developing a heart attack.2
In the early 1980s physicians began to learn that not all cholesterol was bad. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| The massachusetts Women's Health Study concluded that women who were depressed pre-menopausally had higher rates of depression in perimenopause; for the women who were not depressed during the premenopause years, the rate of depression was slightly increased during perimenopause and was highest for women who remained perimenopausal for at least 27 months.16 Researchers observed that the rate of depression begins to decrease as women move from peri- to postmenopause and is lowest for those women who have been postmenopausal for at least 27 months. |
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