Word: cure
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...cure for cancer was announced today, what then? Does our government have a rapid-deployment plan, the medical equivalent of a military rapid-deployment plan? Hundreds of thousands of terminal cancer patients would read nothing but good news until the day they died, knowing all the while that their problem was not cancer but the institutional inertia that separates discovery from deployment...
Sickle-cell anemia, a genetic disease, generally strikes people of African, southern Mediterranean and Asian descent. There is no known cure...
Singaporeans have every right to be proud of their achievements. Does that justify Michael Fay's sentence? A letter writer to the New York Times advised that "six of the best," as he suffered at an English public (that is, private) school, might cure all that ails American youth. Comparing Fay's sentence to a headmaster's paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan...
...Goldensons, who have a long history of supporting efforts to cure cerebral Palsy, said they hope "to marry the advances in neurobiology with the needs of cerebral palsy research...
...other cells do. They also talk of reining in the cancer cell, even rehabilitating it, a task that demands the development of less toxic drugs that can be tolerated over a lifetime. The model for cancer therapy of the future already exists. "After all, we don't cure diseases like diabetes and hypertension," says Dr. Lance Liotta, the National Cancer Institute's leading metastasis expert."We control them. Why can't we look at cancer that...