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How High Tech Is Operating on Medicine Doctors and machines that move as one, pacemakers that collect and transmit data, seamless support systems... Here's a peek at tomorrow's health care Focusing on Picture-Perfect Diagnoses As noninvasive imaging improves, more patients agree to tests. That means ailments are identified sooner -- and cost less to treat Gene Therapy's Unsteady First Steps Initial experiments have led to both positive and disturbing results, forcing scientists to temper, but hardly abandon, their expectations A Tool-and-Die Maker for Genesmiths Finding the DNA quirks that cause diseases was a pricey, laborious process until Illumina developed its robotic lab workers Waiting for the Genomics Payoff David Barker, chief scientist at Illumina, explains how his company's technology works -- and why investors need to be patient Automating the Hospital Pharmacy McKesson CEO John Hammergren says his "robotic" systems let doctors, nurses, and pharmacists concentrate on the tough jobs Inside J&J's Innovation Machine From liquid bandages to sophisticated time-release medication, CFO Robert Garretta explains health-care giant's R&D strategy | |
 BIOTECH BEAT How Merck Is Treating the Third World CEO Ray Gilmartin says the drugmaker's experience fighting river blindness can be applied to AIDS but that the industry can't do it alone (Oct. 10, 2002) STREET WISE The Kinks In Genentech's Pipeline The biotech giant has shrugged off breast-cancer drug Avastin's disappointing clinical trials. Can investors afford to be as sanguine? (Sept. 19, 2002) AMERICA'S FUTURE Biotech for Boomers Over the next few years, new treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, and cardiovascular conditions will help some patients manage once-deadly diseases (Sept. 19, 2002) GURUS OF MEDICAL TECH A Marriage of Nanotech and Biotech Harvard chemistry professor George Whitesides' latest quest is getting tiny nonliving structures to assemble themselves (July 30, 2002) | |
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