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...Institute for Reproductive Medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. The Institute had developed a procedure that could enable her and David to have a healthy child, and Hodgen wanted them to try it. The procedure, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, is a marriage of in vitro fertilization and high-tech genetic testing. PGD begins with a standard in vitro fertilization, but then, when the embryos have divided to between four and eight cells, technicians remove one or two cells and test them for the harmful gene carried by the parents. The embryos develop normally even though cells have been removed...
...project's self-volunteered guinea pigs don high-tech gear that monitors their circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems. With their face masks and unique watches that measure and record heart and pulse rates, they look like astronauts in training--an apt resemblance as it turns out. "If you go up in space for three weeks, stay in bed for three weeks or age 30 years," says Nadel, "the wasting that goes on in the muscles, bones and water volume is remarkably similar." The seniors in the program are so pleased by the immediate benefits of the assorted aerobic and muscle...
...also place great importance on obtaining a meticulously detailed medical history that includes dreams and childhood experiences, enabling them to customize therapy. Chiropractic and massage, two of the three alternative therapies most used by Americans (along with relaxation techniques), provide another component many patients feel is lacking in high-tech medicine: touching, as both a curative and an extension of compassion...
...wealthiest or best-insured patients. Any long-term solution for AIDS will also have to take into account the estimated 20 million people living outside industrialized countries who are infected with HIV. Most of them cannot afford basic health care let alone high-tech treatments, and most are infected with a different subtype of HIV than those commonly studied in the U.S. and Europe. Nor can the scourge be conquered without a vaccine, even though scientists are still unable to answer a fundamental question: What must such a vaccine accomplish in the body in order to protect...
...Next Big Thing, just a gleam in some undergraduate's eye today, could put your company out of business tomorrow. Andy Grove, the Intel CEO who led his microprocessor company through a series of similarly wrenching changes a decade ago, has distilled the essence of competing in a high-tech world down to a single sentence: "Only the paranoid survive." He's right. Uncertainty is the watchword of the new digital age. That's why Microsoft is throwing everything it's got at Netscape. And that's why, despite that onslaught, Netscape still has a chance...