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Connecting with Autism
Before the 1960s, children with autism were often considered impossible to educate, and schools focused on trying to curb the children’s bizarre and aggressive behavior by isolating them from the group or sending them to the gym to work off hostile energy. Today, specialists, including those at Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Autism, are helping children not only stop aggressive and self-destructive behavior, but also develop social skills, confidence and feelings of self-worth.
The Next Breakthrough
In laboratories around the world, researchers are working on new ideas for treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. They’re doing the same for cancer, heart disease and other killers large and small. It’s this basic research — the painstaking process of learning how cells and molecules function and what goes wrong with them during disease — that drives all advances in patient care.
Healing Notes
Doctors and therapists with firsthand experience tout the medical benefits of music. Now, science is proving them right.
Saving Face
Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, and a team of 30 specialists made medical history in December 2008 when they performed the first face transplant in the United States. The 22-hour operation transplanted 80 percent of the patient’s face from a cadaver. Dr. Siemionow, Director of Plastic Surgery Research at Cleveland Clinic, says this surgery was 20 years in the making.
Can the Bee Gees Save Lives?
Disco is so 1970s. But one dance-fever classic can be a lifesaver. The Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” has the perfect number of beats per minute — approximately 100 — for performing CPR.
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