The fields of medicine and health care exhibit perhaps the most profound examples of human ingenuity.
Many new health care techniques are first utilized in war. Alan Russell talks about his lab's groundbreaking -- and heartbreaking -- work rebuilding maimed soldiers. Dean Kamen shares a personal story of his efforts to construct a medical prosthesis truly worthy of a soldier’s sacrifice.
However, all this new medicine is useless if you can’t access it. Emily Oster flips our thinking on the AIDS epidemic in Africa -- examining the unspoken prejudices that may prevent the international community from responding effectively. Allison Hunt shares a morality tale: how she got her new titanium hip with some old-fashioned volunteering. And psychologist Vilayanur Ramachandran explains how he cured a debilitating condition -- phantom limb pain -- for a mere $3.
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Eva exemplifies the youth of today that will create the new medicine of tomorrow...she is simply astounding...
I like the concept of stem cell medicine that she is diving into...I also like the idea of instead of radiating the cancer areas thus putting the body into a more deteriorating condition...for many know that it is the disease that generally kills the person, it is the treatment...good luck Eva in all that you are a thinking deep thoughts over...remember what Albert Einstein once wrote about his genius status..."it isn't that I am all that intelligent, it is just that I think deeper thoughts than others."
You go girl...
May You Be Blessed Always
Love, Light and Peace
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Extraordinary ! Enhances the wish of living
