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...year. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are experimenting with dissolvable plastic wafers that are implanted in the brain and slowly release an antitumor drug for cancer victims. The day is not far off when most diabetics will be able to give themselves insulin with a nasal spray. In California doctors are working on drug-loaded bubbles of fat that bind themselves to diseased cells. Says Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer at M.I.T.: "It's an explosive field with enormous potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Just What the Doctor Ordered | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Allergy sufferers are now treated with antihistamines, which temporarily block the immune response, as well as steroid nasal sprays and inhalers, which reduce inflammation. But more effective help may be on the way. Scientists have synthesized bits of protein molecules that prevent immunoglobulin E antibodies from setting off an allergic reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop That Germ! | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral-facial muscular imbalance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chattanooga: How Not to Talk like a Southerner | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

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