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you are here: DentalPlans.com > Dental Health Articles > Book Review > The Year in Medicine From A to Z
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Updated: 12/2/2005 10:25:30 AM |
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| This year, as every year, the struggle against disease was a grab bag of good and bad—vision and shortsightedness, courage and obtuseness, scientific masterstrokes and experiments that came to naught, TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger writes in the introduction to TIME’s annual A-to-Z guide to the year in medicine. TIME’s 2005 guide to the year in medicine tracks the highlights of the 12 months soon ending—and suggests that this year may have been one of the good ones. By any measure, 2005’s biggest medical news came out of Woo Suk Hwang’s Seoul National University lab—despite the subsequent scandal. The earliest bulletin was the announcement that Hwang and his 45-person team had become the first to using cloning techniques to create stem cells from human patients suffering from diseases such as diabetes and spinal-cord injury. Tissue derived from those cells could, in theory, be implanted in the pancreas or spine with little chance that the body would rejected it. If such experiments work, the same approach could be applied to other parts of the body, such as the brain or heart. There was plenty more that made news in health this year—the highlights of which are described in the pages that follow. At the end of 2005, the world may not be an appreciably healthier place than it was at the end of 2004, but with new drugs rolling out, new techniques being tried and new initiatives being launched, our tools are better than ever. Now we must learn how to put them to good use, TIME reports. TIME’s team of science and health reporters includes Jeffrey Kluger, Christine Gorman, Alice Park, Sora Song and Claudia Wallis.
© 2005 HealthNewsDigest.com
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