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Operating in the womb sometimes has miraculous results. Yet many still question whether it should be done at all.
Once poised to defeat infectious disease, vaccines beat a long retreat. Now they’re back, and gaining new ground.
Long the stuff of science fiction, suspended animation also has a medical history—and it could soon save trauma victims.
After symptoms begin but before reality departs, aggressive treatment may forestall the disease. But is the intervention worth the risks?
Point: Yes, they are key in the nation’s efforts to develop a value-driven health care system. Counterpoint: No, because the wrong kind of measurements can do more harm than good.
As Elliott Fisher of the Dartmouth Atlas Project has discovered, more money does not always mean better health care.
Engineering students at Duke University created the BlueRay, which is being used experimentally on jaundiced babies in the developing world.
Salty, sweet, sour, bitter and… umami. Science could have used a cooking lesson to discover one very important amino acid.
Injected RNA, which can turn off genes and halt production of harmful proteins, could profoundly affect the way we treat disease.
Human joints wear out, and often replacements do too. Now innovative designs are improving longevity and function.
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