Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a test could create a dilemma of a different sort: do people really want to know that Alzheimer's lies in their future when medicine can offer no cure? "If there's no way of controlling what happens to you," observes University of Iowa neurologist Dr. Antonio Damasio, "then it's unclear that early diagnosis provides an advantage. What you're probably going to do is worry yourself sick...
Once malignant cells have spread beyond their original location, however, traditional chemotherapy is usually much less successful at producing a cure. In an attempt to develop a treatment for these more advanced cases, the researchers at Dana-Farber have been experimenting with levels of antitumor agents that are much higher than those normally prescribed. In Lehman's case, the treatment was to last four days, and the amount given during each 24-hour period was supposed to be barely shy of lethal. The physician in charge of figuring out her daily dosage, whose identity has not been released, apparently made...
COMBINE IDEAS: No one solution is likely to cure all the ills of Social Security. "There's a good argument for doing many things at once," says economist Neil Howe. "First, we should be raising the retirement age to 70. Second, there should be an affluence test to shift the system toward a floor-of-protection concept. Third, we should gradually move to a private plan...
...Brought over from Africa by a smuggled monkey, the virus has the capacity to decimate internal organs within hours, and spread to the entire United States within days. Dr. Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) and Dr. Roberta Keough (Rene Russo) are the doctors in charge of containing and finding a cure for this dread disease...
...better. Now, count how many of the audience members blame the guests' problems on low selfesteem. I challenge you to find a show in which no one blames low selfesteem. You won't. It seems, if we believe talk show audiences, that raising one's self-esteem will cure all problems...