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...National Cancer Institute's, which is focusing on screening plants for compounds active against the AIDS virus and nine major types of cancer. Since 1986, the NCI has received samplings of thousands of different species from ethnobotanists as well as such institutions as the New York Botanical Garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the University of Illinois at Chicago...
...people of Garden City, Kans., have always lived at the end of the world. In the 1870s and '80s, wagon trains plodded along the Santa Fe Trail for a month or more from Kansas City, on the state's eastern edge, to the scrappy little community near its western border. Even today the trip takes eight mind-numbing hours by car. No wonder Garden City (pop. 24,072) and hundreds of other rural communities in western Kansas have had a tough time persuading physicians to come and set up a practice. In fact, more than half the state...
When it comes to teaching medical techniques, of course, some of the instruction has to be hands-on, and that is where people like Doll come in. A longtime nurse practitioner from Garden City, Doll also happens to be a Dominican sister who lives in a modest home with two other members of her order. By day, Doll works for two community-health clinics that care for about 1,300 children, most of them Mexican American, whose parents may work but may not necessarily have insurance. In the evening she teaches local nurse-practitioner students how to suture wounds, treat...
What links these two women--and dramatically shrinks the distance from Kansas City to Garden City--is one of the shrewdest applications of telecommunications technology that can be found anywhere in medicine today. In 1995 Kansas extended its network of high-speed telephone lines to reach Garden City specifically so that St. Catherine Hospital, a local 132-bed facility owned by the Dominican Sisters, could set up a compressed-video classroom and become part of the statewide nurse-practitioner program. "It breaks the isolation," says Doll, who sits in on her students' classes at the hospital. "It keeps us abreast...
...technology in the world makes no difference, however, if people's lives are not changed for the better. And that is where nurse practitioners like Doll truly shine. When she started working in Garden City seven years ago, she was one of only two nurse practitioners, and childhood immunization rates hovered around 50%. Today there are six nurse practitioners, and immunization rates have jumped to 75%. That may not seem like much of a coup, but it means that somewhere there is a little girl who did not suffer brain damage because she never developed measles, somewhere a little...