He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University and cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was also named a Public Interest Law Scholar.

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Smerconish is a 1984 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lehigh University where he majored in government and journalism.

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Mr. Kerschberg has a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs and German, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he was as a Coker Fellow.

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Dr. ANDREW EINSTEIN (Cardiologist, Columbia University): Using beta-blockers or other medications to lower patient's heart rate, which in many cases will chip the radiation dose down by minimizing the number of images which are taken, and matching the technical parameters such that the patient doesn't receive too many x-rays.

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During this period Gary Grotendorst , then an assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, was testing TGF-beta's relationship to other growth factors.

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By 1992 Grotendorst, who had done work at the University of South Florida and is now at the University of Miami, concluded that it was CTGF, not TGF-beta, that triggers collagen production by binding to specific cell receptors.

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Recently, researchers at the Institute of Neurology at University College London stimulated the brains of human subjects to push the brain toward beta band frequencies associated with focus to study the effects on motor processing, with the hope of helping those with Parkinson's disease.

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Harvard University researchers conducted experiments on mice using oligomers, a soluble form of amyloid-beta protein, which is the key compound in brain plaque and a hallmark of Alzheimer's.

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