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Like every medical revolution before it, the field of gene therapy began with the vision of a brighter future. Researchers promised to cure such hereditary disorders as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle-cell anemia, not with conventional medicine but with the magic of genetic engineering, supplanting defective genes with their normal counterparts. Patients dreamed of a life free of the diseases they had inherited. Venture capitalists dreamed of untold riches and backed the leading researchers in the field with millions of dollars of seed money...
...problem may be that there is an ingredient missing. Emotional skills, like intellectual ones, are morally neutral. Just as a genius could use his intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help...
...budget of the NIH, which is cure rather than care," he said. "You double those budgets...
Scientists from Britain's Medical Research Council are reporting that a new AIDS treatment lowers death rates by nearly 40 percent. "It's a very important development," says medical writer Christine Gorman. "It is not a cure, but it is clearly a way for people stay alive longer. Scientists are finding that combining drugs is a very effective way to treat some very serious diseases, like AIDS and cancer." The treatment, which combines the drugs AZT and either DDI or DDC, was tested on some 3,000 patients in Europe and Australia...
...safer ways to treat patients. One of his investigations focused on quinine, then (and now) the treatment of choice for malaria. Though he was healthy, Hahnemann dosed himself with the drug and observed that he experienced the same fevers and chills that characterize the disease it is supposed to cure...