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...these questions of their physicians. Bill Valvo could not agree more. "I think people are totally unaware of what's going on," he says, "and I'm convinced that education is a key part of what we need to be doing." The essence of that education: cure the mind, and you might just help save the body...
...since then it has gone from a medical and cultural institution to the punch line of a mildly dirty joke told by psychiatry residents. The members of the American Psychoanalytic Association today treat fewer than 5,000 patients in the U.S. How did the treatment Freud called the "talking cure" fall from grace? And now that it has fallen, can it get up again...
...that “reality” television shows like Survivor and Fear Factor become yardsticks of courage. The military offers the real thing. Richard Henry Dana Jr., Class of 1837, author of Two Years Before the Mast, took a deferment and had the time of his life. To cure his failing eyesight and to test his mettle, he took a leave of absence in 1834 and shipped as a common sailor aboard a ship bound for California, via the South Seas and Cape Horn. His account of the experience is well worth the read...
...research that borrow some of the same techniques. Supporters of "therapeutic cloning," in which embryos are cloned to harvest their stem cells but never grown into a baby, argue that these primitive cells, which can turn into any kind of cell in the body, may hold the secret to cures for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases. "Of course, all society--from scientists to politicians--is against human reproductive cloning," asserts Dr. Robert Lanza, medical director of Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech firm in Worcester, Mass., that has led the way in cloning human embryos for stem-cell research...
...sense of a clear and present danger," says Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, who plans to reintroduce his bill quickly. His legislation would make it illegal even to import products derived from cloning done overseas--which some say raises the possibility that if scientists in Britain find a cure for Alzheimer's, American patients will be barred from getting...