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...space to the effort. That's what we did last year when TIME sought to explore the mood of late-century America by sending a team of journalists rolling from town to town and coast to coast along U.S. Highway 50. This week we take a similar high-impact approach to the vital subject of healing, in a 36-page special report on a week in the life of one of the nation's premier teaching hospitals. That institution, Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, agreed to play host to 14 of our journalists, who examined everything from...
...system against already established tumors. Lyerly and his colleagues aim to enhance the ability of dendritic cells, an alarm conveyor in the immune system, to target the cancerous cells and make it easier for the body's killer T cells to recognize and destroy them. If it works, this approach promises a more effective and much less toxic alternative to the carpet bombing that is chemotherapy. After decades in which immune therapies have failed to live up to expectations, the field is advancing again, in part because of improved understanding of how the immune system works...
...Stanford last year a small trial using the dendritic-cell approach cleared two patients of lymphoma and reduced tumor size in two others. Trials elsewhere have produced mixed but still promising results. Researchers have found a way to increase massively the number of dendritic cells ordinarily found in the body, in the hope of amplifying the therapeutic effect. Lyerly and his colleagues achieve their results by infusing patients with their own dendritic cells--after the cells have been encouraged to grow and have been altered in a way that enables them to stimulate a more aggressive immune response...
...treatment is called cord-blood transplantation. It is an approach that is being used at several medical centers, but Duke has done more of it than anyplace else...
Ever since Hussein's previous cancer scare, in 1992, which cost him a kidney, the King has turned over more responsibility to his brother. The palace has worked on showcasing Hassan and improving his aloof image. No longer does the prince approach crowds with his hands behind his back, as he once did. Now, his arms are outstretched in the manner of the King--and a politician. "These days he can glad-hand like the best of them," says the diplomat. But, says a palace official, "the King relates to the people instinctively, while Hassan tries to understand them always...