Word: curely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering the effectiveness of any medicine, conventional or herbal, it's important to consider that the placebo effect, or the patient's desire to believe in a cure, can have a powerful influence. Recent studies show, for instance, that while 86% of men taking a baldness remedy reported that it worked, so did 42% of men taking a placebo...
Harvard Medical School Professor M. Judah Folkman was the subject of much media fanfare in May, when his groundbreaking cancer research on mice was touted as paving the way to a cure for cancer...
...article in The New York Times, James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, was quoted as saying, "Judah is going to cure cancer in two years...
...tells the horrifying story of an epidemic of blindness that spreads across the world, destroying families, social institutions and, eventually, every shred of recognizable civilization. The blindness begins when one man is suddenly and inexplicably struck with a strange, dazzling white blindness. Helplessly seeking to find an explanation and cure, the man infects everyone he meets. The blindness does not discern between good and evil--it infects a car thief as easily as a doctor, a prostitute as easily as a child...
...injected, not swallowed as a pill, which suggests the drug gets destroyed by the stomach. "That?s not going to be very convenient," warns Gorman. We?ll find out more in the next round of testing -- but don?t hold your breath for the cure...