Word: treating
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...There is going to be a shift away from a therapeutic sort of medicine, where you treat someone who is already ill, to a medicine where you identify the risks a particular individual has for developing certain diseases and then try to prevent that person from ever becoming ill. Ironically, one of the first consequences of a better understanding of genetics will be an emphasis on altering the environmental contribution to disease because that's a lot easier to change. If you know you are at high risk for lung cancer, your motivation to stop smoking will increase...
...adds a sense of urgency. The cystic fibrosis gene has been found now for a year, and in that year 1,000 people have died, including people I knew personally. That is both troubling and motivating. You can't sit back and treat what you do as an intellectual exercise when the mere mention of a disease brings to your mind the faces of people you care about. That's why it's important to have a certain percentage of people working in this field who are comfortable with both basic science and clinical medicine...
...problem with people who keep raising the cry of "racism" is that they would have us see everything in terms of race. They treat minorities as emblems, and everyone as typecast. And in suggesting that a white cannot put himself in the shoes, or soul, of a half-white, or a black, they would impose on us the most stifling form of apartheid, condemning us all to a hopeless rift of mutual incomprehension. Taken to an extreme, this can lead to a litigious nation's equivalent of the tribal vendetta: You did my people wrong, so now I am entitled...
...which old favorites get a new twist from the clever combination of other flavors. Good old soft-shell crab, for instance, gets dressed up nicely in a simple deglazing sauce made with lime juice and grated ginger, which breaks up the usual overly buttery taste of this summer treat...
...experiment proposed by Dr. Anderson is more controversial. He would use gene therapy to treat children who lack a key immune-system enzyme called adenosine deaminase (ADA), leaving them vulnerable to every passing germ. Some researchers question the wisdom of performing a novel -- and potentially dangerous -- therapy on children, especially since there is already an effective drug treatment. "There are a lot of other diseases without therapies," says Duke University's Dr. Michael Hershfield, an expert on ADA deficiency. "And they're in adults who can make decisions for themselves...