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Scientists who specialize in nutritional genomics have only begun to decipher the relationship between DNA sequences, diets and ailments like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Their hope is that someday your own nutritional geneticist will be able to scan your DNA and tell you exactly how to plan your diet given the genes you've been bequeathed...
...What the Fancy Machines Can - And Can't - Do New medical technology can probe, scan and make sophisticated diagnoses. But it's up to the body to cure
...life. As usual, he was right. I started the half-day process sitting across a table from two examiners, both senior neurosurgeons. Laid out on the tabletop between us were models of a skull, a head and a spine, as well as several laptop computers filled with brain-scan images. After a quick handshake, the fun began...
...What the Fancy Machines Can - And Can't - Do New medical technology can probe, scan and make sophisticated diagnoses. But it's up to the body to cure
...Meanwhile, Ashley promised to work out some of her stress on a treadmill and promised to return after exams so we could reassess her stress and headaches. But the waking up at night bugged me. Most teenagers, once asleep, don't awaken easily. So again I ordered a CT scan "to be cautious," and again it proved a caution worth taking. Ashley's brain tumor required chemotherapy before neurosurgery, but she too has recovered well. She still gets headaches, however, because her sister won't get rid of the hamster, which is indeed the source of Ashley's allergies...