Mukherjee dedicates his book to “Robert Sandler” and to all those who fought and continue to fight against cancer. In 1947, two year old Robert was the first leukemic patient to be tested with Farber’s antifolates. Robert even responded to aminopterin, though his cancer relapsed. The journey till the antifolates was not an easy one and it took decades after decades to traverse the path from the...

• Rick Wilson, Director, The Genome Institute at Washington Univ. School of Medicine • Judy Garber, Director, Cancer Risk/Prevention Clinic, Dana Farber • Shashikant Kulkarni, Head of Clinical Genomics, Wash. University School of Medicine • Shyamali Singhal, Medical Director of the Cancer Center, El Camino Hospital • Nickolas Papadopoulos, Director of Translational Genetics, Johns Hopkins Medic...

farber lipogranulomatosis is a rare inherited condition involving the breakdown and use of fats in the body (lipid metabolism). characteristics are early-onset subcutaneous nodules, painful and progressively deformed joints, and hoarseness by laryngeal involvement in affected individuals, lipids accumulate abnormally in cells and tissues throughout the body, particularly around the joints. thre...

Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the adipose tissue mesentery. Also known as mesenteric lipogranulomatosis or retraction syndrome, this condition presents with formation inflammatory nodules in mesentery, composed tissue, cells, fibrosis and vascular changes. Although exact etiology not yet fully understood, relationship abnormal immune response...

Theorists such as Farber argue that in adolescence passionate love first appears in all its intensity. Both adolescence and passion are "intense, overwhelming, passionate, consuming, exciting, and confusing". As yet, however, clinicians have been given little guidance as to how to deal with adolescents caught up in their passionate feelings. Nor has there been much research into the nature of p...

1996;109;312-315 Chest Galassetti and Felice Manfredi Edward T. Mannix, Mark O. Farber, Paolo Palange, Pietro Skaters Exercise-Induced Asthma in Figure http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/109/2/312 and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ISSN:0012-3692 ) http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/reprin...

1Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA; 2Department of Immunology, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, MA; 3Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; and 4Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emor...

1 Van Vooren JP, Turneer M, Yernault JC, Dc Bruyn J, Burton E, Legros F, Farber CM. A multidot finmunobinding assay for the serodiagnosis oftuberculosis. Comparison with ELISA technique. J Immunol Methods 1988; 113:45-49 2 Van %boren JP, Farber CM, Motte 5, De Bruyn J, Legros F, Yernault JC. Assay of specific antibody response to myobacterial antigen for the diagnosis of a pleural effusion in a...