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...idea of transferring knowledge instead of patients may be the most important medical trend of the next decade. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, such information and expertise warehouses as the Duke Databank and Henry Ford Hospital will become resources for doctors all over the world. Knowledge that once took decades or years to spread from research centers to practicing physicians now moves in hours...
...seniors' quality of life. A yearly federal survey of 20,000 people 65 and older showed a steady decrease through the 1980s in chronic disabilities of all kinds--with the most dramatic reductions in the 85-plus segment. "It is evolutionary, not revolutionary," says Kenneth Manton, a demographer at Duke University in North Carolina. Nonetheless, it is a welcome relief for the aging. "Life is a lot better now for older people than it was just 20 years ago," says Dr. Harold Karpman, a Beverly Hills, California, cardiologist...
...defenses against the more serious threat. In early trials of vaccine preparations that include the canary pox agent, half the human subjects appear to be producing the right kind of immune response, but further tests are needed. "By the turn of the year," says Dr. Dani Bolognesi at Duke University, "we should be able to tell whether these vaccines are going to be worth pursuing further...
America has experienced such a consensus election at least once before; it is noted by historian Peter Wood of Duke University. In 1820 James Monroe beat John Quincy Adams so badly that Adams received but one electoral vote out of the 232 cast. Then, as now, voter turnout was low. Then, as now, the country was prosperous and at peace. The winner was an incumbent Southerner who represented the slightly more popular and liberal of the two parties, used his first term to defuse social and regional antagonisms and supported banks and business in a way that made it impossible...