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Drummond said she usually e-mails students after they leave UHS--for any ailment--to ask the student to meet with...
...that's just for starters. In 2025's genetically based pharmacology, you'll not only have your pick of the old standbys--tranquilizers, antihistamines, painkillers and antibiotics, all compounded to your personal specs--but you'll see all sorts of new capsules and tablets for virtually every ailment and condition. These will range from mood and pleasure enhancers--legal and otherwise--for the pill poppers of the future to new medications for diseases likely to be much more common in an aging population, like Alzheimer's, cardiovascular problems and cancer...
...example, is a synthetic gene that makes a protein that in turn stimulates new vessel growth. In a few years, predicts William Haseltine, the biotech industry's champion optimist and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, based in Rockville, Md., we will have genetically based drugs for almost every serious ailment--"things we couldn't really work on well before, whether it's osteoporosis or Alzheimer's." Nor will these drugs simply attack symptoms, as aspirin does. "That's a chemical crutch," he says. In the new genomics, as Haseltine calls it, "it's the human gene, the human protein...
Striking with cruel randomness across an increasingly elderly population, Alzheimer's disease afflicts some 4 million Americans, most of them over the age of 65. They may range from a former President to a neighbor next door, but the ailment is always the same: it clutters the brain with tiny bits of protein, slowly robbing victims of their mental power until they are no longer able to do even the simplest chores or recognize their closest friends and kin. So far, medical science has been stymied, unable to treat the disease or slow its fatal progression...
BONING UP Don't think you're immune to osteoporosis just because you're a guy. Two million American men have the bone-thinning ailment, and 3 million more may be at risk. Now here's some help: the first major study on men with osteoporosis shows that Fosamax--a nonhormonal drug that helps treat the disease in postmenopausal women--also works in men. The bone density of men who took it increased 7% regardless of their...