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...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...
...dismal 1% to 5% of the time. This hit-or-miss dilemma wouldn't matter much if producing identical animals were its only application, but cloning is also the foundation for one of the more promising ways that stem cells might be used to treat human disease with a patient's own cells. At this rate, even cloning's most ardent supporters agree that such a method won't be very reliable, or very realistic. If therapeutic cloning, as it is known, is to become a viable treatment option, then the first thing scientists need to do is boost...
...Sixth Sense” (M. Night, where oh where has your genius gone?). I would even watch “Titanic” over this summer’s tragically mind-numbing “Poseidon” remake.But perhaps we just have to be patient. Summer 2005 was a horrible season for film: countless, poorly-written remakes including “Bewitched” and “Herbie: Fully Loaded,” the un-anticipated role of Jane Fonda opposite J.Lo in “Monster-In-Law,” Jamie Foxx?...
...Greg Foltz, a neurosurgeon at the Seattle Neuroscience Institute at Swedish Medical Center who studies incurable brain tumors, the mouse atlas functions as a springboard for better understanding how these difficult tumors develop and grow. "We need clues," he says. "When a patient comes in and has a tumor removed, we take that tumor and complete a genomic study, but all we have is a database of genes. The best analogy I can come up with is that this genomic data is like having just the names in a phone book; it's only a list. We want to know...
...electrical activity in Johnson's heart. Mathur finds 75% of it damaged, the consequence of earlier undetected heart attacks. Then he takes 10 syringes filled with either blood serum containing stem cells from Johnson's own bone marrow or just blood serum - as part of the experiment, neither patient nor doctor knows which - and injects them directly into Johnson's heart through a catheter threaded into the main artery in his left thigh. Mathur hopes the $5.5 million, four-year study will help clarify whether stem cells from a patient's own bone marrow can repair a failing heart. There...