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How a Sheep-Herding Cardiologist Spends His Sundays

How a Sheep-Herding Cardiologist Spends His Sundays

Five mornings a week, Dr. David Slotwiner, the chief of cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital, can be found tending to human hearts. But on Sunday mornings, he is on a grass-covered field at a rural farm in Hackettstown, N.J., standing among half a dozen sheep, whistle in hand, teaching his Border collies Cosmo and Luna to herd. “It helps me …

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Trump Cuts Imperil Cancer, Diabetes and Pediatric Research at Columbia

Trump Cuts Imperil Cancer, Diabetes and Pediatric Research at Columbia

Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia. All these projects at Columbia University were paid for with federal research grants that were abruptly terminated following the Trump administration’s …

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