Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other problem with all the plans for a new cyberdemocracy is that judging by the one we already have, it wouldn't be a smashing success. Some of the information technologies that so pervade Washington life have not only failed to cure our ills but actually seem to have made them worse. Intensely felt public opinion leads to the impulsive passage of dubious laws; and meanwhile, the same force fosters the gridlock that keeps the nation from balancing its budget, among other things, as a host of groups clamor to protect their benefits. In both cases, the problem is that...
...progress. In the past several years scientists have discovered a great deal about how the body creates and sustains its craving for food. They now believe that, at least in some cases, they have learned enough to block such biological triggers with drugs. No one is claiming a cure for obesity, but the early results are encourageing. "For the first time, I feel that I have some ability to actually help people lose weight beyond simply trying to motivate them," says Dr. Michael Hamilton of Duke University...
...diversified, proliferated and fused in ever more outlandish combinations. Rockefeller University obesity researcher Jules Hirsch estimates that there were about 500 foodstuffs available to Americans 100 years ago, compared with more than 50,000, ranging from pop-tarts to Portobello mushrooms, today. Food, which once served primarily as a cure for hypoglycemia, has become an entertainment medium...
...astonishing thing is that despite the scope of these diseases, veterinary researchers know next to nothing about what causes them or how to cure them. Only 23 of the hundreds of known disorders can currently be picked up by genetic lab tests. Biologists know far more about the heredity of the fruit fly, in fact, than they do about canine genetics. That is because there are fewer than 100 canine geneticists in the world, working at just a handful of major universities -- and they are constantly scraping for funding...
...knows. "Diagnostic tests" are being performed on Rudenstine as he rests inside his home on Elmwood Ave. Water, food, bloods and stool tests performed on victims of the Tuesday epidemic have yet to pinpoint a cause for they're ill nesses. Not even Harvard's scientists have devised a cure for the common cold...