Contains accounts of ten medical scientists who may be regarded as representatives of Islamic medicine.
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Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary couple who, during their almost sixty years together, were involved in many of the significant events of the twentieth century. Margaret & Charley is the story of these two people from their beginnings on the east coast at the turn of the century through the years that followed. Through diaries, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other documentation, the details of their lives are shared with the reader.
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In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., Inc. As the authors show, there was hope even for a wise-cracking kid living through the hard times of the 1930s. Education brought out the scholar in Roy Vagelos, who left his family's small restaurant to attend the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia's Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At NIH, he mastered biochemistry; at Washington University he became a distinguished science administrator; and at Merck, he headed the pharmaceutical industry's most innovative laboratory and then became its CEO. Throughout, he never lost touch with his family values, his intense desire to help others, or his faith in the partnership principle and the competition that makes it work.

• 1. The making of a physician--
• 2. Hot science in big government--
• 3. The French alternative--
• 4. The research university - American style--
• 5. Turning the corner at Merck--
• 6. Crisis--
• 7. 'Blockbusters'--
• 8. On-the-job training--
• 9. Global aspirations--
• 10. The moral corporation--
• 11. Getting to know the Clintons--
• 12. Partners.
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In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., Inc. As the authors show, there was hope even for a wise-cracking kid living through the hard times of the 1930s. Education brought out the scholar in Roy Vagelos, who left his family's small restaurant to attend the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia's Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At NIH, he mastered biochemistry; at Washington University he became a distinguished science administrator; and at Merck, he headed the pharmaceutical industry's most innovative laboratory and then became its CEO. Throughout, he never lost touch with his family values, his intense desire to help others, or his faith in the partnership principle and the competition that makes it work.
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• Origins and beginnings
• From literature to medicine to science
• The first taste of scientific success
• Retroviruses and their replication cycle
• The RSV oncogene and its progenitor
• How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer
• Targeted therapies for human cancers
• Partnerships in science
• The road to Building One
• Being NIH director
• Priority setting
• Bad times and good times as NIH director
• Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming
• Global science and global health
• Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age.

In "The Art and Politics of Science" a Nobel prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions and veteran of the American science policy wars reflects on his remarkable career. A year into his graduate studies in literature at Harvard University, Harold Varmus discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco. In this warm, engaging memoir, Varmus considers a remarkable life's work and also shares his perspective from the trenches of politicised battlegrounds ranging from budget fights to stem-cell research, global health to science publishing. Beyond evidence of Varmus' penetrating intellect, self-deprecating humour and the deep joy he takes in science, "The Art and Politics of Science" offers a stimulating reminder to people in all walks of life about the fascinating-and central-role of science in our world.
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• Al Sommer : over 6 million lives saved : the eye doctor who discovered a better use for vitamin A
• Akira Endo : over 5 million lives saved, statins : life extension for the baby boomers
• Bill Foege : over 122 million lives : saved the complete eradication of smallpox
• David Nalin : over 50 million lives : ORT, a revolutionary therapy for diarrhea
• Norman Borlaug : over 245 million lives : a green revolution to enhance nutrition
• John Enders : over 114 million lives : the father of modern vaccines
• Paul Muller : over 21 million lives : DDT & the prevention of malaria
• Howard Florey : over 80 million lives : penicillin, the miracle of antibiotics
• Frederick Banting : over 16 million lives : insulin, the first true miracle drug
• Carl Landsteiner : over 1 billion and 38 million lives : the superman scientist, discoverer of blood groups.

• Biochemical Genetics-- The Lipid Hypothesis of Atherosclerosis-- Role of Gluten in Coeliac Disease-- Smoking and Lung Cancer-- Oral Poliovaccine-- Coronary Angiography and Bypass Grafting-- Cardiac Transplantation-- External Cardiac Massage-- Defibrillators and Pace-Makers-- Clinical Ultrasound-- Rh Disease Prevention-- Gene Cloning-- Hepatitis C Screening of Blood-- Renal Haemodialysis-- Stem-Cells-- Statins.
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This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby inform and entertain the reader, whether medical student, professor or scientifically-minded layman.
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