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...youngster sent to the hospital and displayed on a PC, Weiss is able to diagnose the condition, known as lamellar ichthyosis, and suggest a treatment. "It was pretty horrendous," he says of the infant's condition. "But we were able to tell them what it was and how to treat it without having to transfer the baby...
...good news is that many if not most of these brain afflictions can now be remedied by increasingly precise psychoactive drugs. In the past few years, scientists have joined disciplines and come up with a whole new pharmacopoeia of compounds to deal with mental disorders. "Today the psychiatrists who treat patients are working hand in hand with the 'wet-brain guys'--the pharmacologists, chemists and molecular biologists," says Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. While the effects of earlier psychiatric drugs were discovered largely by trial and error, the latest compounds...
...curing schizophrenia with these new antipsychotics," says Paul. "But we can treat it better. What would happen if we designed a drug that was 10 times better than Clozaril?" Mount Sinai's Davis, on the other hand, thinks future schizophrenia drugs might well be based on altogether different chemical-messenger systems. "There is evidence that schizophrenics have abnormalities in two very common neurotransmitters, gaba [gamma-aminobutyric acid] and glutamate," he says. "None of the current drugs do anything for the most incapacitating symptom of schizophrenia, the cognitive deficits. Maybe it's time to get off the dopamine merry-go-round...
...laid to human activity. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, for example, are largely a human creation. Miracle drugs such as penicillin and tetracycline have been so overprescribed and then misused by patients that they have encouraged the bugs to develop immunities. The result is infections that are nearly impossible to treat. One deadly microbe, a type of staph that often causes postsurgical infections in hospitals, can now be attacked with only one antibiotic, vancomycin...
...past two years has been the rapid growth of a system known as managed care. Millions of Americans have been shifted into health-maintenance organizations, dramatically restructuring the financing and delivery of health care. The original impetus for managed care came from physicians who wanted the freedom to treat their patients without being worried about whether they could pay for each visit, test or procedure. In the early HMOs, cost containment was an unexpected benefit, not the primary purpose. Since then, in many cases managed care has lived up to those ideals--by paying far more attention to preventive care...