Word: cure
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...adulteress whose husband has sent her to the ocean to "cool the passions" and forget her lover. Unfortunately, she remains underdeveloped along with the rest of the characters and only comes across as stale and unreal. Then there is the 15-year-old girl trying to cure a strange psychological malady with sea bathing. Though she becomes involved with an older man in the novel's only love scene, the description fails to be either erotic or touching...
According to award election committee chair William D. Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Gusella was chosen for his commitment to research with clinical implications...
...According to award election committee chair William D. Dietrich, who is also neurology professor and scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Gusella was chosen for his commitment to research with clinical implications...
George Doeschner had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for 12 years when his physician told him about an experimental surgery that might offer a cure. Researchers at the University of Colorado were taking cells from embryos and putting them in the brains of Parkinson's patients to replace cells killed by the disease. The 55-year-old electrician applied to be a part of the experiment and flew to Denver. He was prepped for surgery and sedated. A hole was drilled through his skull. Then his surgeons sewed him up and sent him home--without giving him those embryonic...
Folkman himself was also quick to caution that the discovery of a cure was not imminent...