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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accelerating pace of invention is saving countless lives in hospitals as well as changing the way people live outside them. "These developments aren't just evolutionary," says Rebecca McKenzie, a head nurse who has been at Duke for the past 10 years and remembers the days when each patient traveled with a paper file six inches thick. "They're revolutionary...
Similar databanks at other medical centers have an even broader reach. At the University of Iowa, researchers have assembled an online hospital that links more than 50,000 doctors and patients a week. The system is so sophisticated that a doctor in India can log on and actually see and hear the symptoms of a child with whooping cough, entered online by his Iowa colleagues, enabling him to compare them with those exhibited by his own young Indian patient. The multimedia Web pages are literally saving lives...
...life, his doctors decided to kill him--nearly. They increased the dosage of an anticancer agent known as cyclophosphamide to levels that completely wiped out Dustin's bone marrow and thus destroyed his ability to generate new red and white blood cells. Then they revived their small patient by injecting him with healthy marrow that had been drawn in advance from his hipbone. The result: today Dustin is 12 and about to enter middle school in Pulaski, Virginia. For almost four years now, he has remained tumor-free...
...also one of many small but significant mileposts that mark how far medical science has come in its fight against the cluster of diseases collectively known as cancer. The struggle has been long and hard and, unlike work in other medical fields, has produced few really dramatic breakthroughs. But patient by patient, tumor by tumor, doctors are beginning to gain ground. "We may not know how to cure most cancers yet," says Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), "but we do know what we need to do to get there. And that's very exciting...
...constructed to attack antigens that the immune system does not ordinarily recognize as dangerous, such as those displayed by tumor cells. Moreover, these antibodies (dubbed monoclonal because they are identical) can be made even more deadly by loading them with radioactive iodine and other toxins. Infused into a patient's bloodstream by the millions, they become biological torpedoes that home in on clusters of malignant cells, blasting them with killer rays. Almost overnight, it seemed, cancer could become as curable as strep throat...