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...course. It can teach and inspire and get children off the couch. But more likely it will numb and mesmerize and keep them in a state of suspended animation. If you look closely in a child's eyes after a program, you may be able to detect the difference. There just might be a gleam after, say, Bill Nye the Science Guy, or a glaze after, say, Power Rangers Turbo. Children need help as they make their way through a looking glass that gets wider every day. Their parents need their own guides...
...simple stethoscope? Maybe not, according to an article in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a study of 198 internal medicine residents and 255 family practice residents in their first, second and third years, researchers found that physicians could detect, on average, just 20 percent of the 12 most common cardiac problems by using their stethoscopes. And the situation is likely to get worse. Currently, fewer than one-third of all internal medicine programs nationwide offer any official instruction in using the stethoscope. Family practice and internal medicine certification boards long ago abandoned stethoscope...
WHAT'S MY LYME? Doctors have isolated an antibody in spinal fluid that allows them to quickly detect if Lyme bacteria have spread from the site of the bite to the nervous system. Treated early, Lyme disease is easy to cure...
...undersea mountain known as Espiritu Santo, 15 miles east of the Baja Peninsula. The metal-rich seamount, he found, has a particularly strong magnetic field. So do bands of ancient congealed lava that radiate from the seamount like spokes from a wheel. The hammerheads, he believes, can detect this magnetism and use it for navigation. The seamount is essentially a depot: the hammerheads gather there before going out to their feeding grounds...
...drug therapy has come in the past two years. There is still no cure for AIDS, but doctors have watched with growing excitement as the new therapies forced the level of HIV in the blood of some of their most advanced AIDS patients below their ability to detect it. HIV still lurks in these patients' lymph nodes, nervous system and other parts of the body. But some scientists believe that if the virus is caught early enough in the cycle of infection, it may some day be eradicated from the body. Why not hit the virus immediately after the first...