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Other contentious issues will arise. Doctors will be able to detect many serious genetic diseases at the fetal stage, which will lead some parents to opt for abortion. But there will also be preventive measures for people who want to avoid passing their defective genes on to their children. When one parent carries the deadly and dominant gene for Huntington's chorea, for example, there is a 50% chance that any offspring will have it too. To reduce those odds to zero, doctors of the future will extract several eggs from the prospective mother and fertilize them in a test...
...size of a grain of sand -- has already produced a healthy baby girl for a British couple with a 1 in 4 chance of having a child with cystic fibrosis, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. It is now being used to detect several inherited ailments, including hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Tay-Sachs disease...
...doctors are hopeful that they can force the death rate back down -- through earlier and better detection and treatment. The effort begins this week and next, as the Schering-Plough pharmaceutical company, based in New Jersey, sponsors free prostate screenings all over the U.S. An estimated half a million American men will allow themselves to be poked, prodded and bled in hopes of being reassured of their good health or of spotting trouble before it gets serious. In addition to the rectal exam, men can undergo a new blood test that measures levels of a protein called prostate-specific antigen...
...easy. Over the past several decades, much of American medical practice and public expectation has been geared toward the idea that if someone has cancer, it should be treated without delay, observes Dr. Gerald Chodak, a urologist at the University of Chicago. But as blood tests and biopsies detect ever smaller cancers, physicians and patients will have to make more sophisticated decisions about treatment...
...would have to obtain permission from the U.S. Department of the Interior and Tennessee authorities to do so. Lewis' descendants already support the project. Once the explorer is out of the ground, Starrs could use several technological tools that can coax secrets from the dead. Modern lab tests can detect the tiniest traces of poison or gunpowder residue, DNA analysis can help make identifications and scrutiny with scanning electron microscopes can reveal other telltale marks...