Editor's letter.Medical writers labor under an enhanced sense of responsibility. Their stories have the power not only to stimulate a reader's imagination but also to affect his or her health. We've had readers tell us that while reading a description of symptoms in a SCIENCE NEWS article, they first recognized that they had a disease. Others say that their treatment for a previously diagnosed condition was changed after they brought their doctor a copy of a story about a new therapeutic approach. We are especially pleased when an organization dedicated to the welfare of people with a particular medical condition recognizes our writers' contribution to public knowledge of medicine. In the most recent example, the Epilepsy Foundation on Oct. 26 honored SCIENCE NEWS writer Damaris Christensen with its magazine award for her article "Endgame Endgame blind and chair-bound, Hamm learns that nearly everybody has died; his own parents are dying in separate trash cans. [Anglo-Fr. Drama: Beckett Endgame in Weiss, 143] See : Death for Epilepsy?" The judges noted that the article, published June 3, 2000, "offers the public and people with epilepsy It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. <onlyinclude> This is a list of notable people who have, or had, the medical condition epilepsy. a clear and concise summary of current research and future direction of the scientific effort to conquer the disorder." They said that they were especially impressed by the large number of scientists that Damaris had consulted in preparation of the article and "the success with which [she has] interpreted this complex topic for the lay reader." Damaris has been a biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. writer for more than 5 years. Before she joined SCIENCE NEWS as a writer in 1999, she was the Washington correspondent for Medical Tribune, a daily wire service. She has a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of University's Science and Environmental Reporting Program. Her award-winning article notes that although drug and surgical treatments have improved over many decades of research, seizures aren't completely controlled in about 20 percent of people with epilepsy. In the article, Damaris describes recent advances in genetics, molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller , imaging techniques, and bioengineering bioengineering Application of engineering principles and equipment to biology and medicine. It includes the development and fabrication of life-support systems for underwater and space exploration, devices for medical treatment (see that make scientists optimistic that they're finally on the way to a cure for the disease. The article can be viewed at SCIENCE NEWS ONLINE (www.sciencenews.org/20000603/ bob2.asp). |
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