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First-Line Treatment: Chronic-leukemia drug clears a big hurdle

In its first large-scale test on newly diagnosed leukemia patients, the drug imatinib—also called Gleevec and STI-571—stopped or reversed the disease in nearly all patients receiving it.

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Visionary science for the intestine

A tiny disposable flash camera that a person swallows can detect problems in the small intestine.

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Bone scan reveals estrogen effects

Using a scanning technology called microcomputerized tomography, scientists have a new way to look at the difference between bone exposed to estrogen and bone deprived of it.

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Common antibiotic may cure river blindness

Tests in cows suggest that tetracycline might kill the tiny worm that spreads river blindness, a disease that infects about 18 million people.

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From the June 14, 1930, issue

1,500,000,000 YEARS OF LIFE PORTRAYED IN GREAT HALL OF PAINTINGS Fifteen hundred million years of life on this planet will be unrolled as a single connected epic in a series of three majestic new halls planned for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Fossils, rocks, mounted plant and animal specimens, paintings, and statuary […]

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Imaging Parkinson’s

A new brain-imaging technique can supply proof of Parkinson's disease in people whose symptoms fall short of the standard definition of the disease.

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Zapping bone brings relief from tumor pain

By unleashing radio waves inside bone, researchers have stopped intractable pain in people with cancer that has spread to their skeletons.

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Bilirubin: Both villain and hero?

Bilirubin, which causes jaundice in newborns, may protect against cellular damage.

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In Silico Medicine

Medical researchers are increasingly turning to computer simulations to help them understand the complexity of living systems, design better drugs, and treat patients more effectively.

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An alternate approach to Parkinson’s

While levodopa is the treatment of choice for Parkinson's disease, drugs called dopamine agonists, which mimic the neurotransmitter dopamine, may work as well early in the disease, cause fewer side effects, and preserve levodopa's effectiveness.

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Bypass surgery in elderly works fine

Coronary bypass surgery works as well in people over age 75 as it does in people 15 years younger.

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From the December 10, 1932, issue

CALVES RETAIN PART OF WILD THINGS’ CHARM Cows are prosaic. Like all the rest of us who have grown into maturity and (alas!) responsibility, they have their workaday jobs in a workaday world, seeing to it that we get butter and, eventually, beefsteaks. But calves still have something reminiscent of the long-lost wild freedom of […]