Medication Under a Microscope
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A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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A new compound gives hope as the disease has become increasingly resistant to current drugs. By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times.
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Doctors have long struggled with how best to treat small children with drugs and medical devices that are mostly designed, tested, and approved for use by adults.
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Researchers find way to make tiny structures emit different wavelengths of light.
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This small biotech provides screens that can help catch cancer.
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Sheets of elastic, sticky polymers could replace sutures and provide long-term drug delivery.
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Mixing cells and eggs to be allowed in search for new medical treatments.
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Scientists have performed a delicate surgical operation on a single living cell, using a needle that is just a few billionths of a metre wide.
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Scientists perform a surgical operation on a living cell, using a needle just a few billionths of a metre wide.
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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.
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Devices made of heart tissue could screen drugs and power implantable robots.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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The company faces a pivotal clinical trial.
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A synchrotron acts like a gigantic microscope that generates intense beams of brilliant light to view the microstructure of materials.
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New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs.