21st Century Medicine (July 2006)
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Tackling Malaria; 21st Century Medicine; by Claire Panosian Dunavan; 7 Page(s)

Interventions available today could lead to decisive gains in prevention and treatment--if only the world would apply them (originally published December 2005)

Virtual-Reality Therapy; 21st Century Medicine; by Hunter G. Hoffman; 4 Page(s)

Patients can get relief from pain or overcome their phobias by immersing themselves in computer-generated worlds (originally published August 2004)

Rebuilding Broken Hearts; 21st Century Medicine; by Smadar Cohen and Jonathan Leor; 8 Page(s)

Biologists and engineers working together in the fledgling field of tissue engineering are within reach of one of their greatest goals: constructing a living human heart patch (originally published November 2004)

Toward Better Pain Control; 21st Century Medicine; by Allan I. Basbaum and David Julius; 8 Page(s)

Advances in understanding the cells and molecules that transmit pain signals are providing new targets for drugs that could relieve various kinds of pain--including those poorly controlled by existing therapies (originally published June 2006)

The Stem Cell Challenge; 21st Century Medicine; by Robert Lanza and Nadia Rosenthal, sidebar by Christine Soares; 7 Page(s)

What hurdles stand between the promise of human stem cell therapies and real treatments in the clinic? (originally published June 2004)

Genomes for All; 21st Century Medicine; by George M. Church; 9 Page(s)

Next-generation technologies that make reading DNA fast, cheap and widely accessible are coming in less than a decade. Their potential to revolutionize research and bring about the era of truly personalized medicine means the time to start preparing is now (originally published January 2006)

Buying Time in Suspended Animation; 21st Century Medicine; by Mark B. Roth and Todd Nystul; 5 Page(s)

An ability to put the human body on hold could safeguard the critically injured or preserve donor organs for transport. Does the power to reversibly stop our biological clocks already lie within us? (originally published June 2005)