Word: healed
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Research done on rats suggests x-rays could become a valuable tool in treating spinal cord injuries. A scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York has discovered that correctly timed x-rays in the right dosage can allow severed spinal cords to partially heal, and can restore some use to paralyzed limbs. When the spinal cord is severed the limbs are paralyzed and the injury does not heal. A precisely timed dose of X-rays prevent the formation of cells called reactive astrocytes, which block the growth of damaged nerve fibers. Curiously, the rats need...
...human beings have sought to heal ourselves for as long as we have experienced disease and injury. For at least 3,000 years, the practitioners of medicine have codified these efforts, chronicling each new theory and practice--for the benefit not only of future healers but also of anyone eager to understand the limits of survival...
Many parents know ultrasound as the device that gives them the first grainy, in-utero glimpse of their baby. Now doctors are using it to speed up bone healing. Even a sonogram's low-intensity waves are enough to stimulate bone-cell formation. When treated within seven days, stress fractures heal as much as 40% faster than they would without treatment. Patients take home a portable device and zap the fracture for about 20 minutes a day until their doctor deems the fracture healed...
...more astonishing that Dole rose to the podium on Thursday night, grabbed the tax-cut crowd by the lapels and told them they were only half right. There was still plenty wrong with America that a tax cut could not heal. It was as though he stared down his new partners, said I'll take your hope-growth-and-opportunity and stick it in my knapsack, but I'm here to deliver a message from the ages. "All things do not flow from wealth or poverty," he said. "All things flow from doing what is right...
...here he is still making news. He would love that. "Politics is not for the weak of heart. Even grizzled types like me get bruised," mused one of the game's most complex players. His defensive valedictory, delivered to a fresh-faced admirer, shows that the bruises never quite heal...