Profile: Wayne B. Jonas, probing medicine's outer reaches
Article Abstract:
Wayne, the head of NIH's new OAM promotes homeopathy and other types of alternative medicine long ridiculed by the medical establishment. Alternative medicine's humanizing, wholistic approach is gaining popularity in part because it treats patients as individuals, not aliments.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
Officials and employees, Interview, Homeopathy, Public opinion, Alternative medicine, United States. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Wayne, Jonas B.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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Maglev: racing to oblivion?
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Economic factors are the cause of the decline of magnetically levitated trains as public transport. The high cost of technological upgrading as well as the high maintenance costs proved to be the the technology's undoing.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
Analysis, Economic aspects, Transportation, MAGLEV vehicles, Magnetic levitation vehicles, Local transit
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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