Christopher Lane
The Distortion of Grief
CHICAGO – How long does it take to mourn the death of a loved one? The question is peculiar, even mildly offensive. Recovery from bereavemen…
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Javier DeFelipe
寻找穿越大脑之路
马德里—我们的大脑像是茂密的森林——一个复杂的、难以穿越的、互相影响的神经元之林，调节着认知和行为。大挑战在于揭示它的神秘性，即找出神经元是如何构造的，又是如何互相联系的。我们对这一目标有多接近？总体而言，构成神经元之林的数十亿神经元之间的信息交换通过两大高度专业化的结构发生：化…
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Jean-Jacques Cassiman
谨慎对待基因革命
鲁汶—我们或许没有完全认识到，但子孙后代可能把我们的时代视为真正的历史性时代。此前从未有人类能够明白细胞、组织和器官的功能、进化的精确分子机制以及人类在何时何处起源并遍及世界各地。让我们明白细胞和亚细胞过程和机制、认识疾病的原因并开发出更具体有效的治疗方法、确定谁与我们在生物上有…
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Peter C. Adamson
如何战胜儿童癌症
费城——对父母而言，或许没有比疾病或意外丧子更为深刻的恐惧。儿童癌症最有可能将遥远的恐惧变为难以想象的现实。作为一名照顾患癌儿童及其家属超过25年的儿科肿瘤学家，我知道只有面对癌症诊断的家长才能真正理解这种深不见底的恐惧，因为它触动了我们身为家长的价值核心。我也知道我们治疗的儿童…
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Art Kellermann, Spencer Jones
医疗卫生IT迟到的前途
华盛顿—由于信息技术（IT）极快地改变着人们的日常生活，我们开始忘记事情与不久的过去相比改变了多少。如今，全世界千百万人定期使用网络购物、用无线设备下载整部电影、书籍和其他媒体、随地使用ATM机完成银行业务、自助预订整个旅行过程、在机场通过电子值机方式登机。但生活中有一个方面采取…
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Anthony Jorm
媒体对阵精神病患者
墨尔本—被控去年夏天在科罗拉多州奥罗拉（Aurora）满座剧院纵火的詹姆斯·霍尔姆斯（James Holmes）没有犯罪记录，但在事件发生前就诊过精神科。被疑谋杀母亲并枪杀康涅狄格州某小学20名儿童和6名成人教职员工随后自尽的亚当·兰扎（Adam Lanza）从未陷入过法律纠纷，…
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Alasdair Breckenridge
救命的药物杀手
伦敦—药物的有害作用吸引着全世界媒体的目光。毕竟，关于“药物杀手”的恐怖故事很好卖。但是，尽管对药物的有害作用的担心不无道理，但它们并不构成严重的公共卫生问题，因为它们的益处远高于害处。具有严重安全副作用的药物通常被用来治疗致命疾病——比如多种癌症、关节炎和HIV——因为说到底，…
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Adriano Aguzzi
朊病毒之谜
苏黎世—最终导致370万头牛被扑杀、重创英国畜牧业的疯牛病爆发极为隐秘。1986年，一头英国母牛染上了一种未知的脑病。一年后，检查表明这头牛的大脑被大量小液泡腐蚀，形成海绵状的形态，于是这种病的学名被称为牛海绵状脑病。几个月之内，这种病开始在全英国出现。一种类似的被称为痒病的疾病…
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Marc B. Garnick
癌症筛查辩
波士顿— 当今最具争议的医学议题集中于癌症筛查，而癌症筛查好处似乎是毫无争议的。事实上，许多人认为，从逻辑上讲，早期诊断必然能增加患者战胜疾病的机会。但现实证据表明并不总是如此。前列腺癌就是一例。筛查包括对特定年龄和性别个体（不管家族史和个人健康状况）的大量试验，以识别潜在病情。…
Health and Medicine
Do medical advances, like stem cell research, promise eternal youth or an ethical quagmire? With skyrocketing medical costs and aging populations, will even rich societies be unable to assure decent medical care for all? Are millions needlessly dying in poor countries because they suffer from diseases that do not affect the rich? What will be the payoff of the mapping of the human genome?
Medicine is being transformed by a scientific and technological revolution. But will new and better drugs and longer life spans come at too high a cost to our ethical and moral norms? The question is too important to be left to experts and accountants. Informed discussion requires that the public understand the social, economic, and political implications of today’s medical advances.
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The contributors include some of the world’s leading physicians, including Nobel laureates Paul Berg and Christian de Duve, and such renowned experts as Claude Kordon of the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Harvard’s infectious disease expert Paul Farmer, Oxford University Professor of Physiology and Director of the Royal Institute Susan Greenfield, and Lennart Levi of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.
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