Every patient has a story; how good it is depends on your own experience.

View original here:
Compelling Stories, if Not Literature

Books: 'Time in Andalusia Poetry' and 'History of the Levant at the Outset of the Ottoman Empire'.

Original post:
Abu Dhabi's National Library publishes two new titles

( Biochemical Journal ) New findings that shed light on how genetic damage to muscle cell proteins can lead to the development of the rare muscle-wasting disease, nemaline myopathy, are reported today, March 15, in the Biochemical Journal.

See more here:
New clues about the basis of muscle wasting disease (EurekAlert!)

Iris Murdoch, a prodigiously inventive and idiosyncratic British writer whose 26 novels offered lively plots, complex characters and intellectual speculation, died yesterday at a nursing home in Oxford, England. She was 79 and had Alzheimer's disease.

Read more here:
Iris Murdoch, Novelist and Philosopher, Is Dead (New York Times)

The killing of author Bobi Tsankov underscores how Bulgaria’s homegrown mafia still holds sway over the country, experts say.

Original post:
For Bulgarian Writer, Death Imitates Art (New York Times)

"The New Acropolis Museum" incorporates architectural models, casts of classical Greek pottery and sculpture, and rare books and prints in Wallach Gallery.

Read the rest here:
New museum in Athens inspires exhibit at Wallach Gallery (Columbia Daily Spectator)

In 1969 Theodore Roszak’s book The Making of a Counter Culture hit the bestseller lists and won awards for its optimistic analysis of middle-class, non-conformist, anti–Vietnam War students of the post-war-generation “baby boom.”

Original post:
Books: Roszak Continues Work with New Study of ‘Elder Culture’ (The Berkeley Daily Planet)

WILTON Andrea Chaloux and Kenneth Barnett stood at the edge of a small pond at the Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park gripping antennas in one hand and holding transmitters to their ears.

See more here:
Scientists strive to save rare Blanding's population (The Post-Star)

The first known case of someone born without the ability to recognize voices has been reported. The rare condition is known as phonagnosia

Read more:
Can You Recognize People By Their Voices? Case Study of Phonagnosic (Science Daily)