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The fledgling field took another step forward in July, when doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center performed the first gene therapy on a woman with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic disease caused by the immune system's running amuck and attacking the body's connective tissue. Their strategy was...
Kerri Strug's torn ligament at the Olympics may be the cloud with the fattest silver lining ever. The gutsy gymnast isn't letting her pint-size voice stop her from hitting the big time. Instead of touring with the rest of her team, she's working on two books...
Terrorism still ranks pretty near the bottom of genuine threats to Americans. So why are politicians lining up under the banner of fighting terrorism to give police more authority to invade every citizen's already much abused privacy? America has experienced this kind of legislative reaction before, and never with...
"Academia may be lining up behind Wall Street in paying lucrative salaries--but only to those who manage endowments, not those who teach," declared the Globe article on July 26.
--Can a vitamin reverse the ill effects of smoking? Maybe. Early reports suggest that injections of VITAMIN C seem to repair the damage to the lining of smokers' arteries. Next, researchers plan to study whether vitamin pills have the same effect.