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BRAIN IMAGING Finally, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh announced that they had successfully developed a procedure that allows them to peer into the brains of Alzheimer's patients with positron emission tomography (PET) scans to see telltale plaque deposits. Before now, doctors could not track the progress of these plaques until after the patient died, when the brain could be autopsied. Using the new technique, doctors may be able to begin treatment long before the first symptoms appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Hope for Alzheimer's | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...sayings he attributes to Jesus? John's Gospel is the most direct assertion that Jesus is the son of God, and if this Gospel were put aside as unreliable, then Christians would be much closer to being left with a man who is merely another prophet, a peer of Confucius, Buddha and Muhammad, but nothing more. Thomas Guy Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...smoking and wondering about his way forward. It was only a matter of time before another outbreak would occur, he now believed. There was simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the leap. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published so it would impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population--or at least limit contact between humans and the animal. In that time, the disease could again gain a foothold among humans. But as long as there were no new cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race To Contain A Virus | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...sayings he attributes to Jesus? John's Gospel is the most direct assertion that Jesus is the Son of God, and if this Gospel were put aside as unreliable, then Christians would be much closer to being left with a man who is merely another prophet, a peer of Confucius, Buddha and Muhammad, but nothing more. THOMAS GUY Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 19, 2004 | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...cigarettes and wondering about his way forward. It was only a matter of time before another outbreak would occur, he now believed. There was simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the jump. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published that could impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population or at least limit contact between humans and this animal. In that time, the disease could again gain a foothold among humans. But as long as there were no new cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Averting an Outbreak | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

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