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...operation to insert the chip is simple. "It takes about seven seconds," says Dr. Richard Seelig, the company's medical-applications director, exaggerating only slightly. An antiseptic swab, a local anesthetic, an injection and a Band-Aid--that's all it takes. Once the skin heals, Seelig says, the chip is completely invisible, and the Jacobses will hardly know it's there. "The chip is fully biocompatible," Bolton says. "No body fluids can get in, and nothing can be loosened or come...
...five years needed full-time care; and her brother's memory began to crack at 35. A professional geneticist, the woman also knew what it would take for her and her husband to have a healthy child. By prescreening her eggs for the defective gene, doctors were able to insert only healthy embryos during in-vitro fertilization. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the woman gave birth a year and a half ago to a girl who was spared the family curse. The child, however, almost certainly will not be spared the experience of watching...
...able to forgo surgery entirely. Doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston and the Weill Cornell Center in New York City are experimenting with high-frequency radio waves that can literally cook tumors from the inside. Using ultrasound to guide them, doctors insert a multipronged probe into a tumor. The prongs open up like the spokes of an umbrella and melt malignant cells without burning surrounding breast tissue. So far, the procedure has been performed only on women who were planning to get a mastectomy or lumpectomy anyway. But early results have been...
...appreciate it when you're not spelling everything out." Still, it helps to know a few facts about Ali's initiation into the Nation of Islam and his complicated relationship with Malcolm X (Mario Van Peebles), which is already unfolding when the movie begins. Says Mann: "I wanted to insert you into the stream of this man's life, orient you without doing it in a blatant way with exposition." Ali is pleased with Mann's approach. "It was better than I thought it would be," he said after attending the movie's Hollywood premiere...
After Freitag finishes chatting with Guinart-Carrero about his intersession, she begins to insert invitations to the First-Year Formal into boxes...