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...course, massage is hardly a breakthrough treatment - it's been used for centuries in traditional healing. The UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, which has incorporated traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine since 1993, uses massage for most of its 14,000 or so patients each year, who come for treatment of conditions ranging from post-surgical pain to migraines. Dr. Ka-Kit Hui, the center's founder and director, says massage is safe and effective across the board, reflecting one of the core concepts of TCM: using physical methods to help stimulate the body to correct...
...Stem-Cell Breakthrough? Michael Kinsley's commentary regarding stem-cell research was disappointing, especially in that he let emotional rhetoric overshadow scientific evidence [Dec. 10]. Many cures and treatments have been derived from stem cells - but none from embryonic cells. Ethically sound adult stem cells, which have been studied for 30 years, are a proven source of medical advances. Moreover, taxpayer dollars weren't used to fund the destruction of human life. It was a moral stand President George W. Bush made. Let's move on with consensus on this new research. Ronald Simpson, M.D. University of Arkansas for Medical...
...harvest the abundant energy of high-altitude winds. Google’s goal is to bring the cost of its renewable energy below that of today’s cheapest, but most environmentally harmful option: coal.The search is on for what a McKinsey analysis calls “breakthrough innovations”—the sort that could reduce greenhouse gas output far beyond today’s optimistic projections. One such technology is the magnetic levitation wind turbine, a colossal rotating structure that uses magnetic levitation to minimize friction and reduce inefficiency—the same principle that...
When Sharp Corp. wowed the worldwith its flat-screen liquid-crystal-display (LCD) television in 2001, it wasn't just a technological breakthrough. It was a step away from the box. "For the first time ever, television gave way to design," says Michio Ogawa, a senior member of the design team that created Sharp's pioneering Aquos line. "Flat panels turned the television from an eyesore when it's not turned on to an interior-design fashion statement...
...clear that this was the case.” Dyann F. Wirth, co-director of the Infectious Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute and the chair of the HSPH department of immunology and infectious diseases, said that combining different research techniques was the key to the breakthrough. For recent research, faculty profiles, and a look at the issues facing Harvard scientists, check out The Crimson's science page...