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Instead, Black began to use radio waves, which cook the cancer to death right away. A few years ago, he developed a treatment that uses an MRI-guided radio-wave probe to reach into a tumor. The procedure can be performed under local anesthesia on an outpatient basis and be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TUMOR WAR | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Now the U.N. is funding a study of Heantos' effectiveness , which will be overseen by the Johns Hopkins medical center. The brew will be analyzed at U.S. labs, and patients using it in Vietnam will be closely monitored. If Dan's elixir is proved effective, it may one day help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Morton may well have performed an even more remarkable service to modern medicine by establishing a link between metabolic disorders like glutaric aciduria and cerebral palsy. Most practitioners have long believed that oxygen deprivation or trauma at or before birth causes cerebral palsy, a motor disorder that reflects injury to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A DARK INHERITANCE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Such thorny human concerns are at the heart of a pioneering research effort that is bent on clinically identifying the long-term emotional and social effects of early genetic testing. Directed by neuropsychologist Jason Brandt of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the project enlists the talents of psychiatrists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEING THE FUTURE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Enter Brandt, 43, intelligent but unintimidating. Long fascinated by the physiological aspects of memory disorder, Brandt started delving into amnesia, Alzheimer's and dementia while a graduate student at Boston University. Upon joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1981, he began focusing on HD, a disease that he says provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEING THE FUTURE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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