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Genetics does not seem at first glance to have much to do with medicine, but many human disabilities are based in genetics. The most baffling problem of medicine, cancer, is caused by a genetic change in human cells that makes them multiply irresponsibly. Increased knowledge of genetics may eventually cure or prevent cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

When Cornell physicians believe that they have cured the physical side of a Navajo's ills, and that his remaining problems are emotional, they agree that he may find help among his own people. In effect, they are referring him to a medicine man. And as mutual understanding improves, they are delighted to find that a nidilniihi, like other native diagnosticians, is more likely to refer patients direct to the clinic, bypassing the chishiji and similar sings. The medicine men, more and more, are admitting themselves to PHS hospitals to get white man's magic for illnesses which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Mary Grey-Eyes | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...focused most sharply on the aging human since 1903, when Elie Metchnikoff suggested in The Nature of Man that "this science may be called gerontology" (from the Greek geron, an old man). In 1909 Internist Ignatz L. Nascher coined the word geriatrics (from geras, old age, and iatreia, cure) for the medical care of the old. Geriatrics has grown as a sub-specialty of internal medicine, but is not yet recognized as a fully distinct specialty-and many geriatricians think it never should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Adding Life to Years | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...reluctant to enter a lead and zinc cartel because her mining economy is booming, would prefer a free market in which high-cost producers, such as in the U.S., would be eliminated. Says W. S. Kirkpatrick, executive vice president of Canada's Consolidated Mining & Smelting: "The only real cure is to reduce output by closing down the high-cost producing mines. The natural economic law of supply and demand should be allowed to work without interference from governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE METALS MALADY.: Controls Are No More Than First Aid | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Most businessmen believe that the best and quickest way to cure the glut in many commodities is not a governmental plan but voluntary agreements to trim output and bring supply in line with demand. The copper industry has shown how producers can solve many of their own problems. Copper producers voluntarily cut back production in the face of a big supply and falling prices. The market stabilized itself without any artificial controls, and last week copper prices were moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE METALS MALADY.: Controls Are No More Than First Aid | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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