Word: destroy
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...hope this [march] will destroy the popular images of Guess, Nike and Disney [and] show the CEO's that these Harvard students do not tolerate injustice and will be active," she added...
...patient can begin the drastic treatment that will destroy bone marrow unless it is certain that the marrow can be replaced. Some have autologous transplants, in which their own marrow is harvested and returned to them later; others must search for allogeneic transplants from donors--usually relatives. But even close relatives do not always have compatible marrow. In recent years about two-thirds of all patients needing allogeneic transplants have sought unrelated donors...
While most surgeons are willing to adopt minimally invasive, or noninvasive, procedures to control bleeding during an operation--such as laparoscopy, which requires tiny incisions, or ultrasound to destroy kidney stones--they usually stop short of transfusionless surgery. Some medical fundamentalists view it as a false promise with its own risks, but even doctors who acknowledge its value caution that it is not the panacea some physicians think it is. Certain situations--liver transplants, for example, and instances of trauma--will always require transfusions. Says Dr. Steven Gould, a surgeon at the University of Illinois at Chicago who advocates reduced...
...operation progresses. Black is also seeking advances in noninvasive surgery, used when a tumor is so deeply embedded in eloquent tissue that it cannot be cut out. Surgeons now use focused beams of X rays to kill cancer tissue, but because these devices rely on radiation to destroy tumors, they can be used only sparingly. And because tumors killed this way take months to die, there is no way for the surgeon to know during treatment if he has got all of the tumor...
...computers, it is conceivable that the surgeon will not have to be at the scene of an operation. Just imagine, says Black, "the patient is lying in the MedArray machine in Nairobi. The MRI image is sent to a surgeon at Johns Hopkins, who directs the machine to destroy the tumor while he's getting feedback via the Internet. And then the patient walks...