Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feeling the itch to get back out on the field, Kerr left Duke after that season and spent the next six years playing with the English professional team Millwall, the Dallas Burn and New England Revolution of the MLS and for the last two years with the Bulldogs as a...
That could happen. Over the past two decades, Alzheimer's research has exploded to such an extent that a revolution in treatment seems likely. "We now have almost an embarrassment of riches," says Dr. Kenneth Kosik, a professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School. "Not only do we have...
Remarkably, there are other people--sober, scientific people--who agree. For centuries, doctors have considered the spinal cord an impossible thing to heal. Choked by proteins that block regeneration, denied other proteins that foster growth, dammed up by scar tissue at the site of an injury, a spinal cord that...
We are witnessing the early days of a wired revolution in medicine. The Web has shattered the physician's tightly held monopoly on information. Specialists are starting to provide consultations via the Internet. Some doctors are experimenting with computer programs that monitor how often an asthmatic refills a prescription, alerting...
So, when he wrote 200 years ago, Malthus was wrong. He did not see that nations are not like ecosystems, that people could expand into new regions and, with the burgeoning technology of the Industrial Revolution, become vastly more efficient at producing food and wresting raw materials from Earth.