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...since its beginning. But to define and describe the frontiers of medicine as the new millennium approaches, we decided that only a special issue could do justice to the subject. In the following pages we present the very latest developments in each of the major areas of medicine--and peer ahead at what may be on the horizon...
...addition to TPA, a series of advances in computer-imaging technology have enabled doctors to peer directly into the brain while a stroke is under way. The sharply detailed pictures reveal the type of stroke that is occurring, how far along the stroke has progressed and even whether various treatments are having an effect. Surgeons have also fine-tuned procedures in which they can perform preventive maintenance on some stroke-prone arteries. But the best is yet to come: researchers are developing medications that will actually protect portions of the brain from damage for as long as 12 hours after...
Members of the NASA-led team arrived in Washington fully prepared to enter the fray. They distributed copies of their peer-reviewed report, which the prestigious journal Science accepted for publication in this week's issue, and displayed some remarkable scanning electron-microscope images of the tiny structures found inside the meteorite...
...television could go where the wreckage was, and one could peer into the obscure video to find the pieces that were eventually going to become a comprehensible story. Boats maneuvered in the darkness. Nets dipped into the black water. Flares dropped by C-130s hung in the sky like naked light bulbs at the ends of luminescent cords...
...succumbed. First, my office became a microcosm of intern culture, with the three of us exchanging stories about college, moving to D.C. and future plans. Soon, we were going to lunch with some other interns across the hall. And on the way back from lunch, somehow bolstered by peer pressure, we stopped by the office of the internship director just to see where the happy hour would be that night. In a weak moment, I admitted a familiarity with the restaurants and bars in the area, and suddenly...I was named chair of the nightlife committee...